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• Re: How do I change the starter motor?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:05:33 -0500
  Dominic Robertson wrote: > I have an 87 Westy Syncro and it has a problem starting every now and then. > To start it I have...
• Re: [T2] Wont start update
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Sat, 23 Nov 2002 12:59:26 -0500
  ...Thanks, Chris ---- snip ---- Time for a new Starter? Bridging the 2 large posts should get the starter to spin. The starter will never engage...
• Re: DELAYED STARTING!
  Historical mailing list - Ed McLean
  Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:59:30 -0500
  ...I found when it wouldn't start I could whack on the starter with a 19 mm wrench hammer and it would then start...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon 1.9l gas - starter type ?
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:37:17 -0500
  Larry -- Hot day here in Georgia? Right! Hot Georgia days equal difficult Vanagon starting unless you make sire that solenoid getting what it needs...
• Re: Definition of "turn over" Please
  Historical mailing list - Alan Bosch
  Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:13:37 -0600
  I think you mean "...the engine turns over, but dosen't start." The phrase "turns over" means the engine will crank - the starter engages...
• Starter Woes
  Historical mailing list - C Snyder
  Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:30:49 -0500
  I have a 1987 Vanagon 2/wd and changed out the starter about 4 years ago with a Bosh remanufactured unit. It has been...
• Re: Slow turnover when starting.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:03:33 -0400
  Most jumper cables are not large enough to carry current to run a starter. Again, what is the voltage at the starter while it...
• Gowesty starter problems
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Mon, 5 Sep 2016 06:24:35 -0400
  I've had my Gowesty starter for two years plus for 22,000 miles starter does not work now. Is this typical of this...
• Intermitent starting
  Historical mailing list - Jim Morgan
  Tue, 4 Oct 2005 17:44:53 EDT
  Hello All, I am in need of some Ideas about my intermitent starting problem. Most times turn the key it starts. Every so often...
• Re: Starter question
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:52:58 -0500
  I installed Jay Brown Starter Relay Kits on all three of my vans. Worth every penny. John On 10/19/2013 3:15 AM...
• Re: Slow turnover when starting.
  Historical mailing list - Ken Olsen
  Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:49:40 -0400
  I'm getting some good electrical advice, but I did jumper a fresh battery directly to the starter. I've also, at this point...
• Re: New Starter - Works, but no start
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 22 Oct 2013 04:21:44 -0700
  If this happened right when the starter was changed then he probably left a wire off the starter. The fuel injection gets power from...
• Starter Interchange
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Wed, 2 Jun 2004 02:30:25 -0400
  ...i was looking at the 1.9 vanagon starter in comparison to the scirocco starters that i have on the shelf. they look to...
• Re: starter
  Historical mailing list - rick Duvernay
  Mon, 29 Oct 2018 20:34:50 -0700
  I just installed the Bus Depot adapter plate and gear reduction starter a couple days ago. Two hour job and no worries about removing...
• Starter Cranking Amps?
  Historical mailing list - Chad
  Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:49:56 -0400
  Just put a new rebuilt starter on my 85GL. The van now only starts when its freezing cold (-4F today) and still turns over...
• 1985 Vanagon 1.9l gas - starter type ?
  Historical mailing list - AAG - Larry Word
  Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:17:15 -0500
  ...Trouble shooter "logic" - starters My daily driver quit on my recently.....battery "appears" good but nothing else is happening when I try to start...
• Vanagon Won't Start When Warm
  Historical mailing list - James Wetzel
  Tue, 4 Mar 2003 20:37:46 -0500
  ...Now, it has started this game of not starting. When it fails to start, I do notice a strong fuel odor outside the vehicle...
• Re: No voltage at starter?
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Thu, 18 Feb 1999 01:36:22 +0100
  Aaron Robinson wrote: > My van's starter doesn't seem to be working, but it actually is. The > problem is that when I try...
• Stuck starter
  Historical mailing list - Melvin Mudgett-Price
  Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:36:17 -0400
  Over the weekend the van wouldn't start. Traced it down to a stuck starter motor. Quick tap with a hammer and it started...
• Re: Gowesty starter problems
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 5 Sep 2016 08:44:52 -0700
  First things first, have you checked your ignition switch? If it is a bad starter, GW claims theirs is a custom design, and supposedly...
• Re: delayed start
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:22:42 EST
  I would think this has more to do with the condition of the battery, connections of wires, condition of starter and bushing than the...
• : Gowesty starter problems
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:52:39 -0400
  Finally an UPDATE on my Gowesty starter. The starter was bad and confirmed by Gowesty. I did purchase a new one for the $323...
• Re: Slow turnover when starting.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 15 Apr 2012 02:05:43 -0700
  ...try a really fat shot of juice to the starter trigger terminal via a Remote Starter Switch ( a tool ) or some other means. On...
• Hard starting hot
  Historical mailing list - Richard Gandy
  Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:27:10 EST
  1984 1.9 recently overhauled engine The van starts great cold runs great but if you shut it down or stall it won't...
• Re: Gowesty starter problems
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 5 Sep 2016 06:21:33 -0700
  $300? For a starter? Seems expensive On Sep 5, 2016 6:12 AM, "Roy Nicholl" <RNicholl@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote: Dennis: Reports such as...
• Re: 82 won't start
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:24:31 EST
  In a message dated 1/21/03 3:59:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, dahigginbotham@NCDRAGONFLY.COM writes: << Our 82 westy will not start...
• Slow starter
  Historical mailing list - John Schaper
  Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:20:58 -0800
  My guess is you need to remove/replace the starter. 1. Had a Cessna 182 with same symptoms--new starter solved problem. 2. Had...
• Re: starter help
  Historical mailing list - Bob Mac
  Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:06:23 -0400
  Take a hammer and wack the starter a few times . If it starts, the brushes are gone, replace the starter. Don't laugh, it...
• Re: hard start problem
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:24:06 -0600
  ...In mine, it starts cold and starts hot, but sometimes doesn't start "warm"--when it has been cooling down for ~30 minutes or...
• Re: Starter solenoid powered by fuel pump circuit....arrrrgg...long...help!!!
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:31:19 -0600
  ...Engine started...starter engaged...disconnected the starter wire....starter still stayed engaged. > > Tried it a second time, but disconnected the fuel pump wire....starter...
• Re: Starting problems...
  Historical mailing list - Milo's Kitchen
  Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:43:14 -0500
  ...If the solenoid clicks but the starter does not operate, check the top-most (at the starter) big diameter wire for corroded connection (see...
• More 1.9l Starter Questions
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:27:24 -0400
  My 1.9l 4-speed starter does not look like the starter shown in my Bentley. Is this a picture of an automatic starter...
• Re: '87 Syncro Westie Starting problems
  Historical mailing list - mark keller
  Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:16:35 -0400
  Well Tony, I have experience a similar experience with other starters. The starter may have a "flat spot". This is described by a "pair...
• 83 starter motor weak?
  Historical mailing list - Craig
  Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:18:53 -0800
  Hi, since I'm considering a Subaru engine conversion, I started reading the Kennedy engineering web site. There is a note that says that...
• Re: Starting Problems -still
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:47:28 -0800
  ...Starting Problems -still >Hello All: > 84 Automatic that has a starting problem. When the key is turned I can >hear the starter engage, a...
• Re: Starter whizzing
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:24:42 -0400
  ...The starter gear is driven by a one way clutch (Bendix). This clutch keeps the engine from driving the starter after it starts so...
• Re: Gowesty starter problems
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Mon, 5 Sep 2016 10:12:11 -0300
  ...Is this typical of this type a starter? For a while I noticed that the brushes get stuck then I'll tap the starter...
• Re: '91 Starting Issues
  Historical mailing list - Vanagaudi
  Tue, 12 Dec 2023 01:27:28 +0100
  ...Probably there is sufficient current missing to pull in starter. In case starter had pulled in there is a switch attached to solenoid which...
• Re: starter woe...
  Historical mailing list - Michael Townsend
  Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:39:32 -0500
  ...I had > to leave my van alone for 30 minutes before it finally starts... I installed > the bypass starter solenoid next to the starter...
• starter woe...
  Historical mailing list - James Shinosky
  Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:57:08 EST
  ...I had to leave my van alone for 30 minutes before it finally starts... I installed the bypass starter solenoid next to the starter...
• no start :(
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Dec 1995 08:41:18 -0500
  Morning all - Well, it's 16F outside this morning and the camper decided not to start. Actually the past few days its been hesitant...
• Starter review 4 years later
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Thu, 22 Apr 2021 20:31:53 -0400
  Karl Mullendore makes a adaptor for the vanagon allowing the use of a TDI gear reduction starter. 4 years ago I purchased it and...
• Re: Starter Woes - '88GL
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:07:55 -0700
  First thing I always to is try the starter with a Remote Starter Switch .. that bypasses the ignition switch and that whole trigger circuit...
• Re: starting problem (#2005-1009)
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:28:12 -0500
  The starte pilot bearing/bushing needs replacing when changing the starter.Sometimes this is the cause of slow starter motor.
• Re: Runaway starter - 88 GL w/2.1L WBX
  Historical mailing list - Eric Ley
  Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:16:31 -0400
  Sounds like the starter solenoid is shorted time for a new starter. Eric Ley Garage Mechanic ELM 2001 Demers Franklin, Qc -------------------------------------------------- From: "JRodgers" <jrodgers113...
• starter solenoid heads south
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Fri, 17 May 2002 08:21:38 -0700
  Alistair, I have yet to replace the starter but I thought in these times you get the solenoid with the starter. Has anyone bought...
• diesel warm start ??
  Historical mailing list - Brian Ratliff
  Mon, 03 Mar 1997 11:27:55 -0500
  Hi Volks, I"m having problems starting the 82 Diesel Vanagon when it's the engine is warm (after sitting about 2 hrs). It...
• '84 Westfalia Starting Problem
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Roy, Ph.D.
  Mon, 29 Sep 1997 21:08:47 -0700
  "84 Westfalia water-cooled has "intermittent" starting problem after driving in town or on highway. When attempting to start after driving, there will be...
• Re: Starter Cranking Amps?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:02:06 -0500
  What is the condition is the bushing in the transmission? If the bushing is worn or missing, the starter will not turn properly. Dennis...
• Re: Starter solenoid powered by fuel pump circuit....arrrrgg...long...help!!!
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:51:00 -0500
  ...Engine started...starter engaged...disconnected the starter wire....starter still stayed engaged. >> >> Tried it a second time, but disconnected the fuel pump wire....starter...
• Re: delayed start
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:35:37 -0500
  ...Turn key to start position --- nothing happens. Can hear a slight hum that was present before trying to start. Keep key in start position...
• Re: 86 syncro doesn't start
  Historical mailing list - Paul
  Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:31:59 -0700
  can you describe how one would make a Remote Starter Switch? I have a new/rebuilt starter in my van and it has been...
• Re: Won't start - no, wait, there it goes!
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:17:47 -0300
  Dan, Is this one in the same as the Vanagon "hard start" issue? On 26-Aug-2014, at 10:42, Daniel O Stevens wrote...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon 1.9l gas - starter type ?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:01:29 -0600
  ...Try whacking the starter with a small hammer or piece of 2 X 4 while someone holds the ignition in the start position. If...
• Re: Starter Saga was: 1982 Diesel Intermittent Start Problem
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:59:05 EDT
  Frank; Oh man did I blow this one!! I forgot to mention the dreaded VW starter bushing! You have to forgive us left brain...
• Re: Starter Diagnosis (was Removing Starter)
  Historical mailing list - dusty edwards
  Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:21:07 -0700
  ...I got the starter on the ground and did a quick bench test for the starter motor (positive on the post going from the...
• Van not starting, auto tranny, gear selector position dependent
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:28:43 -0400
  Hi all, My van just started being finicky about starting, but it's not a starter issue, I'm pretty sure. I'd turn...
• Re: diesel starter
  Historical mailing list - Robert Crawford
  Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:22:35 -0800 (PST)
  At 10:35 AM 11/14/96 -0600, Robert Cronin wrote: >Does anyone have or know of the location of a used starter for...
• Pre-starter grind
  Historical mailing list - Jim & Melody
  Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:32:14 -0700
  ...Last four 91 Syncro starts have had a nasty grind/buzz for a second just before starter engages. The starter still engages and engine...
• Re: Won't start - no, wait, there it goes!
  Historical mailing list - Daniel O Stevens
  Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:42:58 +0000
  At least if it's a standard you can pop start it on an slight incline. No go for an automatic. We just serviced...