Try an 8mm allen wrench on a 3/8 ratchet w/ extension. This a job easiest done by brial, and there is a nut on the other side of the bolt too. Hope this helps -aaron mckay -----Original Message----- From: Christopher H. Stinson <stinson@MAIL.OLIN.WUSTL.EDU> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Date: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 9:16 AM Subject: how to remove starter from '87 automatic Vanagon?
>I'm trying to replace the starter on my '87 automatic Vanagon, but I'm >having a problem with the less-accessible "bolt" that holds the starter >to the chassis. The first, more-accessible "bolt" has a nut that >comes off with a socket wrench. I can't see the less-accessible "bolt" >but it doesn't feel like there's a traditional nut on that "bolt" -- >it feels like a round-edged (not six-sided) "nut" on that "bolt". > >I can't find this addressed in my Bentley manual. Any suggestions >from the list on how to detach this second "nut"? > >Thanks! > >Chris > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Christopher H. Stinson (stinson@mail.olin.wustl.edu) > >visiting Accounting Faculty Member 1 July 1998 - 31 May 1999: > Olin School of Business > One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1133 > Washington University > St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899 >phone: 314-935-6349 fax: 314-935-6359 cell: 512-413-6419 > >After 1 May 1999: EMAIL -- stinsonc@darden.gbus.virginia.edu > Darden School > University of Virginia > P.O. Box 6550 > Charlottesville, VA 22906-6550 > >For Overnight Mail: 100 Darden Boulevard > Charlottesville, VA 22903 > |
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