Thanks Karl. Almost missed your reply.

This makes more sense now; the kep or whatever set up is designed for the
original Bosch starter to work properly.

I was, and may still be leaning towards your adaptor plus TDI starter
setup, but am Leary of trying to remove the starter stud at clutch housing
while on this road trip; I'm not equipped to deal with a snapped stud....
If I'm not misunderstanding the instructions I see on vancafe a web page.

Neil

On Tuesday, January 24, 2017, Karl Mullendore <tdiguru@westyventures.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:18:57 -0800, Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> >I have to wonder if warrantee isn't valid due to any possible issue is due
> >to adaptor plates, different clutch housings positioning flywheel teeth
> >further from the GW starter pinion teeth.
>
> Heck no. It's purely a cop-out. All conversions bolted to a wbx bell
> housing
> use the same flywheel diameter and depth.
>
> FWIW, I've sold the TDI starter adaptors to folks with V-8 powered and
> Subie
> six cylinders, diesels with 23:1 compression, and everything in between.
> The
> IMI won't touch those, not nearly the cranking speed or torque of the TDI
> starter. Three failed IMI starters within 50K miles on a customer's diesel
> conversion is what spawned my original prototype.
> Karl
>

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