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Re: Ways iboaters might fix their cars
About 5 years ago I purchased my buddy's BIL's '95 S-10 Blazer for the price the dealership was gunna give him as a trade in ($600). It had about 3 inches worth of teeth missing off the flex plate due to a failing starter that he had already replaced. When I went to pick it up at his house, I figured it would be no biggie to get it running, I would just put a big 1/2 ratchet on the crank pulley, and turn it past the bad spot on the flex plate to start it so I could get it home.
Well... things didn't work out that way. No matter what I did, all the new starter would do is spin and not engage. Luckily I had brought a Jack and stands with me and hand tools. I pulled down the new starter and took a look. It was a nice piece of crap Autozone special, and all but a couple of teeth on the Bendix drive were now broken off due to the ganked flex plate.
He still had the original starter in the back that he was going to return for the core, so I got the bright idea of making 1 good starter out of the two. Mind you, this is all happening at 9PM at night, on the ground in the driveway of his apartment building. For what ever reason (can't remember), I ended up having to braid two of the stranded wires from the solenoid to the brush packs together, then wrap it with electrical tape to hold it. In the end when the finished product was placed back in the truck, and the flex plate was placed in a good position, she fired right up and got me home.
That Blazer is now my mothers that shes been driving every day to work for the past 4 years.
About 5 years ago I purchased my buddy's BIL's '95 S-10 Blazer for the price the dealership was gunna give him as a trade in ($600). It had about 3 inches worth of teeth missing off the flex plate due to a failing starter that he had already replaced. When I went to pick it up at his house, I figured it would be no biggie to get it running, I would just put a big 1/2 ratchet on the crank pulley, and turn it past the bad spot on the flex plate to start it so I could get it home.
Well... things didn't work out that way. No matter what I did, all the new starter would do is spin and not engage. Luckily I had brought a Jack and stands with me and hand tools. I pulled down the new starter and took a look. It was a nice piece of crap Autozone special, and all but a couple of teeth on the Bendix drive were now broken off due to the ganked flex plate.
He still had the original starter in the back that he was going to return for the core, so I got the bright idea of making 1 good starter out of the two. Mind you, this is all happening at 9PM at night, on the ground in the driveway of his apartment building. For what ever reason (can't remember), I ended up having to braid two of the stranded wires from the solenoid to the brush packs together, then wrap it with electrical tape to hold it. In the end when the finished product was placed back in the truck, and the flex plate was placed in a good position, she fired right up and got me home.
That Blazer is now my mothers that shes been driving every day to work for the past 4 years.
