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Re: [TR] TR2/3 starter question

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Subject: Re: [TR] TR2/3 starter question
From: terryrs@comcast.net
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:58:27 +0000
> Wondering on the wisdom of having my TR2 starter "rebuilt" before I 
> install it into my rebuilt engine.  On the other hand, what about foregoing 
>the old starter and going to > one of the gear reduction units? 

Angelo, I have a different "spin" (joke intended, just making it all the more 
pathetic) but the same advice as the others.

When I brought my '59 TR3A restoration project home and tore it apart, I 
immediately took the bullet nose starter in to a local guy who did a great (I 
guess) job of restoring it.  Probably didn't need much.  Then I found out that 
the previous owner who had intended to restore the car, must have inadvertently 
sourced the wrong starter.  Had I installed it, trouble.  Thanks to Randall and 
others on the List, I caught the error before going live with the car, so to 
speak, and sourced one of the gear reduction starters.  

It is a source of not inconsiderable pride that, in the parking garage at work, 
my car, albeit with electronic ignition, starts in a fraction of a second.  The 
general public thinks I'm one heck of a mechanic to keep such an old car 
starting at a touch.  Who am I to confuse them with the truth?

Terry Smith, '59 TR3A
New Hampshire
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