This nut often falls out and rolls under the intake/throttle area, where is has to be fished out. To re-install, you can remove parts of the intake, or use some method of hold the nut while threading the bolt into it - I used tape on a box end wrench to hold it. Did this job many times over the years with my various wbx starter and trans issues, including twice on the side of the road, so I got good at it.... On 1 Jun 2006 at 23:07, BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > On 6/1/06, walter bahm <wbahm@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > just tried installing a new Bosch (rebuild) starter motor onto our '86 > > vanagon gl, manual transmission. I am unable to find a mating surface/screw > > for the top hex-head bolt. is it possible that it disintegrated ? > > > > any advice ? > > > > Thanks, > > walter > > > > Walter, > > I can't say what you are finding or not. However, I can tell you this much > having just done this day before yesterday, the top bolt is a round head > with a hex depression enaged by a nut on the opposite end past the > bellhousing. If neithe of these is there, then it probably fell out rather > than disintegrated. It is not a tiny bolt so it cannot simply be missed. > > Are you saying you have already taken the old starter out and there was no > bolt there? Or are you trying to take the old starter bolt and cannot > get your Allen wrench to fit in to the bolt head? > > > -- > BenT >
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