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Nelson

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Yesterday my friend who was helping me work on my Sprite gave it a final passing grade as he drove it around his town. Today I was to drive it the 50 miles back to my house. Then Murphy struck. When I went to start it this morning the Bendix gear in the starter decided to give up the ghost. The new starter is scheduled to arrive Monday. With the car having been with my friend since last October I decided it was time to just get it home. A call to my insurance company got me a flatbed to bring it back to my home. It arrived safely but I really wanted to do the driving myself. In the mean time I can work on installing the new carpeting and side panels so at least my time won't be wasted. I have to keep telling myself that this is a fun hobby.
 
I would have just push-started it (of course that requires a flat or downhill sloping parking spot).
 
Sounds like when my starter fell out (<span style="font-style: italic">fell out</span>!!) one winter past, on the way home from work. Waiting in the freezing cold for AAA till two in the morning, and towing poor Nigel home. When I told a co-worker about my unfortunate night, he said, "Why didn't you just pop the clutch?"

...pop the what now? :wall: :crazyeyes:

Needless to say, I won't be stranded by an AWOL starter again. :rolleyes:
 
On the other hand, that's how my first road trip ended too - manifold not starter, but, they love to love you and leave you
 
davester said:
I would have just push-started it (of course that requires a flat or downhill sloping parking spot).
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Here's my video of a push start when the starter went
south at the race track. Talk about embarrassing.
Track official gave me the push.
Good thing was I got to pass my friends again.
:jester:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgWLOyQAKak


I had the starter (gear reduction type) rebuilt cheap!
 
Hap Waldrop said:
Gundy said:
davester said:
I would have just push-started it (of course that requires a flat or downhill sloping parking spot).
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Good thing was I got to pass my friends again.
:jester:
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Well some of your friends anyway :driving:
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I said my friends....:flipoff2:

(disclaimer) Hap is a good friend...the kind you can call names
and still have a beer together. We roll that way down here.
He just rolls from the front when in cars.
:jester:
 
Take a look at it when you remove the old one, the Bendix might just need to be cleaned to free it up. If so then set it aside as a spare.
 
When I pulled the starter out there were broken pieces of a clip that fell out. They came from inside an end that was cromped into place. If a new clip were available I would have to uncrimp the end and then recrimp it and the likelihood of doing that without fracturing the newly crimped material didn't seem very high. I'll probably play around with it later but for now my priority is to get the car finished with all the last things like the interior and such.
 
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