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On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 22:41, John Jaranson wrote: > Seems Sophy's 6V starter running on 12V is starting to suffer. > Solenoid seemed to kick, but the starter would spin tonight. It had > seemed to be getting a bit louder lately, too. Fortunately this > happened in my garage. > > I will crawl under tomorrow morning and try the screwdriver trick, but > I really should swap it out proper. > > I have the 12V starter from Jane. It is for an automatic, so is self > supporting. I think all I need to do is pull the old 6V starter and > bolt the automatic 12V starter in its place. I think I remember that I > am lucky in the fact that I have a 200mm flywheels so it does not need > to be swapped. > > Does this sound right? What am I missing? > 6V= 109 teeth on flywheel 12V= 130 teeth Won't work. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) '05 KIA Sorento SUV russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~