>I know the TR-3 has some of the
>shaft of the starter motor sticking out the back so in
>extreme cases you can put a wrencd on the starter and turn
>it backwards to free it. I don't thing the 'B has this
>feature howerver.
My 66B did this a lot. When I couldn't unstick it by rocking
(about every 3rd time. It stuck a lot and since I was a 1st year
college student, almost by definition there was no way I was going
to take the time to fix it) I ended up buying a 1 1/4 inch end wrench
that fit on the back of the starter shaft nicely.
Of course it goes without saying that this would never happen unless I was
well dressed and for some reason or other it was *inconvenient* to crawl
under the car just then.
Perhaps the automotive serendipidous highlight of my life (other than actually
having a spare throttle cable in my 71 Bug when the original broke when I was
450 miles from home) was when I was walking through a parking lot and noticed
a woman with a 67B and looking very distraught. I asked what was wrong and
she said it "wouldn't start". In fact the starter was jammed and to the
amazement
of several stander's by I unstuck it with the 2nd gear rocking method, smiled
sheepishly and wished her a nice day.
Few moments in life are as perfect as that, and suddenly all the times I had
to crawl under my own car didn't seem as annoying as before...
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