This is just anecdotal, but I bought what seems to be the same starter from
GoWesty about a year ago, and its been working perfectly for every single
start.  Sorry to hear about your problem though.

On 5/31/06, Daniel Gordon <dangordon0128@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Had major issues before we started with a "hi-torque" starter from
> randymofoco on Ebay.  It died after 1 month and had to be rebuilt.
> Apparently these starters are basically the toyota celica with a vanagon
> mount.  tried to deal with vendor and I have had no response except "send
> it
> back and they will try to fix it"  riiiiight... thats conveinient!  paid
> the
> $80 to rebuild and now will spread the bad word about it to the list cause
> it really needs to be known.  They said it would outlast my van... I'm a
> sucker, what can I say.
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