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Date:         Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:38:23 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
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From:         Don Spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
Subject:      Re: So thar I was (Engine wouldn't start)
In-Reply-To:  <20071206010733.30EVX7PSAL@priv-edtnaa11.telusplanet.net>
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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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