Early Triumphs (probably MGs too) had a rubber covered push button on the solenoid so it could be operated manually. Helpful when testing compression , setting valves or timing. My 65 has it, The 72 doesn't.
On 5-Dec-07, at 5:58 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > I'm not aware that any early Honda's had such a button in the engine > compartment, but perhaps a few did.=20 > There is one car with that stock though, a Citroen D series. You > just = > push > on the bottom of a solenoid device that's in the battery cable, not > on = > the > starter, and the starter energizes - stock , from the factory |
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