On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Will Daehler wrote:
> When my friend had it chucked up on the lathe, to turn down the armature
> a bit, that's when we noticed that the shaft was bent hideously beyond
> repair. Bowed like a bannana, twisted like a pretzel. A run out of
> 0.1301 !
Dead, you say? Gone beyond? Joined the choir invisible?
Sirrah, I have two such starters... They both are
functional electrically...though one has no bendix
You may have either... Though for all the bull you've been through,
might it be better if you broke down and bought the adapted
"Nissan" starter from Mr. Schumacher? I figure all the hours I
spent pulling those bloody starters, fiddling with the bloody
starters, and replacing the bloody starters on my TR, I could have
justified buying the Nissan "crank" years ago. what did it for me
was the 5 hours I spent on my head with two mirrors, hanger wire
and magnetic probes, trying to fish out pieces of dead bendix
from behind the pressure plate. Conscience then moved me to
tear out the interior and pull the tranny "to make sure".
It were no "Life of Riley" whne the bendix went away...
Greg Petrolati
gpetrola@prairienet.org 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
"That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois
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