Roland Dudley writes >
>Maybe it's like the starter switch on the TD I once owned. It consisted
>of a cable draw that mechanically pulled the heavy duty starter contacts
>together. It was about the only electrical component on the car that
>never gave me any problems.
My first ice racer was a 1961 SAAB 850. A cable pulled a lever which brought
the starter gear into contact with the flywheel gear. When the gear was fully
engaged, the starter contacts would come together. The original cable was a
mess, so we just ran a piece of clothesline to the lever through a suitable
hole in the firewall. We had taken out the glovebox and the glovebox door, so
the bottom of the opening was a handy place to tie the free end. We would just
turn on the key, reach over, grab the rope, yank, and
RING-A-DING-DING-RING-A-DING-DING.
We had gullible bystanders believing it was actually a pull starter.
My next ice racer (circumstances of the first's demise omitted for the
automotively squeamish) was a 1963 SAAB 850GT, which had a normal key start.
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"We don't need no stinking Bendix or solenoid" -SAAB engineers
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