Dear Ph.D. in Hillbilly Engineering.
Don't be so cheap! Buy a new starter or have the old one rebuilt.

Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:36:19 EDT Bill Marshall <Willolyn99@AOL.COM>
writes:
> With all the discussion of gently beating the starter with hammers,
> etc., I
> noticed a lot of folks spoke of crawling under the van, opening the
> deck lid,
> and other inconveniences to hit the starter.  The trick is to go at
> it from
> the side.  If you have a 2-foot pole (or a 62 cm pole), you just
> slide it
> into the wheel well, at about the 10 o'clock position to the rear
> right tire.
>  If it is your first time, do it in daylight or use a flashlight.  A
> couple
> of whacks and you are good to go.  It like shooting pool, and you
> hardly have
> to bend over -- no crawling or unloading involved!
>
>        I did this for a few weeks, intermittently, until I
> disassembled,
> cleaned, and lubed the solenoid.  I may not be an expert on fixing
> these
> things, but I got all the good roadside tricks down pat. :)
>
> Bill Marshall
> 85 GL Tiico
> Ph.D. in Hillbilly Engineering
>

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