Mark, you can just jack it up on one side with a jack and changing it out is pretty easy. I use ramps and jack stands as well and either will also work if you want some more clearance. Hate to hate on a product but I really don't like that GW reduction starter. My advice is to keep your old Bosch unit so that in a year or two when the reduction one craps out, you will at least have a core to send back in when you buy a Bosch unit to replace it with. My story: I installed one of these on a customers vans a few years ago. He lives in New York area so maybe it is just an East Coast thing but the van came back about a year later (just outside the warranty period) and the customer is saying that the starter isn't working. When the van came back in the starter was so rusty and junky looking that if I didn't install it myself a year before I never would have believed it was the same part. It was a gob of rust worth nothing. The customer decided to go back to Bosch and had to pay the core charge on top of the rebuild cost since he had thrown his own Bosch unit away. Hope you have better luck with yours. Ken Wilford John 3:16 www.vanagain.com
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Mark Carrig <stratmanx@yahoo.com> wrote: > So I've got a Go Westy Whiz Bang Gear Reduction Starter, and thinking > about the best way to replace it. > > Should I put the rear of the bus on jackstands and remove the right rear > wheel ? > > Put the back end up on ramps ? > |
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