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Subject:Re: Syncro starter removal
From:Robert Stevens
Date:Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:38:17 -0700

> Alistair wrote:
>> Also make sure the
>> spade connector from ign to solenoid is on there good and tight. If I
>> had the chance, i'd replace that terminal with a screw on connection.
>> I found it most vexing when it came adrift on a trip this last
>> summer, very awkward to re-attach on the road.
>
> Syncro bro Bob and I strongly agree with this.  We spent over an
> hour under his van in Maybell, Colorado--"conveniently located in the
> middle of nowhere"--working to get his reattached.  Four hands and
> a table knife and a pair of vice grips finally did it.
>
> Richard

Indeed. It gave new meaning to the quickest 4-handed exercise since
the first event of "fall-out". ;-)
Know what we did right after this .... drove out onto 300 miles of remote
dirt roads, circumnavigating Dinosaur NM:
http://jones.colorado.edu/Dinosaur09/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/syncronaut/sets/72157618938906336/
What ELSE would a couple of Syncro-Nutz do?!! ;-)

Bob