[Vwdiesel] Nicks Problem child

[Shawn Wright]

On 10 May 2005 at 21:11, mikitka <mikitka at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Well, here it is the eve of starting my completely gone through 1.6L TD, I
> mean it has all been through except one thing and that is the starter, now
> can anyone guess what happened tonight?  Yep, starter is dead, took it out
> and it barely pops out and rotates, this is with a fresh good battery.  I
> did the usual 100% ground connection super sand/clean up as well as the
> positive connections, I even ran a 2gage wire to the starter from the
> battery on both the pos and neg as well as left the original cables in. Of
> course I did all this before I pulled the starter because connection issues are
> big on these. At least from what I have read. Figures that I'm this close to
> starting this thing and one more set back comes along and I have to wait even
> longer now to get it rolling.  How hard is it to rebuild these starters and are 
> the parts for them easy to come by? Too think I was hoping to take it out on a
> break-in run down I-40 a seventy mile ride to Wilmington.

That's a bummer alright! My old Jetta went nearly 500k on the original starter, I still 
have it as a spare. They should be easy enough to find - go for a Bosch reman unit, 
should be $100 or less. I don't imagine they are that hard to rebuild, if you can get 
the parts.

Shawn Wright
http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright
'85 Jetta D 
'88 Westy 2.1L, soon to be 1.6TD 5 speed
 (see progress at http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels)
'82 Diesel Westy