[Healeys] Starter Question

Wilko2 e-wilkins at cox.net
Tue Jan 14 19:40:02 MST 2014


Yeah. I hear ya. My EOM starter just plain failed a couple of weeks ago.
Totally let me down after being in that car since 1958. It's older than me.



On Jan 14, 2014, at 6:05 PM, I Erbs wrote:

> My oem starter was not very reliable. I had to rebuild it after 35 years
>
> Ira Erbs
> IT Educator and Consultant
> Portland, OR.
>
> Sent from my mobile phone. What you get may not be what I typed.
>
> On Jan 14, 2014 10:25 AM, <warthodson at aol.com> wrote:
> I think it really boils down to whether or not you are interested in
keeping
> you car original or not.  If it is correctly (professionally?) rebuilt it
> should be very reliable. If originality is not important to you then
obviously
> the gear reduction starter is probably cheaper & quicker.
> Gary H.
>
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> On Jan 13, 2014, at 5:13 PM, Mike Tobin wrote:
>
> > Got the starter apart as part the take the whole thing a part and star
over
> > BT7 project.  The wrapping on one of the field coils is gone and the
> > attached brush is just dangling.  Guessing I need to do more than just
> > solder on a new brush (they're all just nubs).  Do I get the coils
> > re-wrapped (where)?  Is it worth it?  I'm thinking of just using this as
> > the excuse to get a gear-reduction starter.
> > Cheers,
> > Mike Tobin
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