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Originally Posted by erick212
Goo d to see you got it apart.... now putting the bolt back into the strarted.... if you have someone help you just start the bolts into the started while you are under the car holding the starter in place this will help A LOT.
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ohhh yea, i knew this was coming when i was taking those bolts out, so i started calling local friends before i ever even got down there with the new starter
For future reference, the factory starter of a B14 is identical in most ways to a replacement. the canister (the big part, dunno which ones the silinoid and which ones the starter.....i guess the big part would be the starter) the starter is larger on a replacement. Also at the end of the starter, you'll notice that on a replacement that the gear isn't half shrouded and pre-protruding like the factory one is. By pre-protruding i mean you're able to see into the grooves of the teeth on the gear just by holding the starter up and looking into the gear shrouding.
On the replacement, there is no shrouding, and the gear is not pre-protruded, it is totally incased in a more streamline housing, and when it extends to turn your engine over, it extends completely out of its housing. I'll post pics if i find them. I should've took some with the camera i don't have before i returned the old one.
Heres the factory one, or at least what it more or less looks like (this one is for a GM)
And heres the replacement, or close to it, at any rate, you can see the difference in starter-gear shrouding i was talking about that is absent on the replacement starter (This is a mercedes starter, take away those mounting points by the gear on the end, the places it bolts down on this particular starter, and you'll have what looks like one of ours)
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