Absolute agreement. Far and away the best value for these items is local
rebuilders. I have had nothing but disappointment buying rebuilts or even
new starters/alternators for my TR-6 and my XJ-6 with prices up into the
$250.00++ range. At my local rebuilder though, the price per
starter/generator for a complete rebuild is $95.00. If the unit is deliverd
to the shop early in the AM it is ready at 5:00. This can't be beat. Only
once in 20+ years did I have to use the warrantee and that was for a starter
for the Jag in which a new but defective drive had to be replaced within 2
months after the rebuild. I recommend this strategy 100%.
Deano
-----Original Message-----
From: Roy [mailto:techman@metrolink.net]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 4:36 PM
To: triumphs-digest@autox.team.net
Subject: re: starter
All,
Many years ago (in the late '70's) the starter in my '59 TR3 quit. I took
it to a local starter/generator rebuild shop in town who rebuilt it for an
inexpensive, very good price. Because their only business was to rebuild
starters, generators and motors, they had a jillion variety of parts and I
picked it up in a day or so.
Don't know if anyone has tried this recently, but I've found it is amazing
what obscure parts some of these kinds of "specialty" industrial/automotive
shops have in stock!
So, to resolve the starter problem, you might try looking in your yellow
pages for a starter/generator/ (electric)motor rebuild shop and take it to
them.
This same philosophy also worked for a friend who had a '48 Plymouth Special
Deluxe with a flat head 6 cylinder engine that needed rebuilding. The shop
guys all loved getting to work on an "old" engine as a break from the newer
stuff. It also turned out they had all the parts they needed right in stock
(because that same engine was, and I think may still be) used as a marine
engine and was used in autos for a couple decades.
Roy
'60 TR3a TS63103LO (in restoration)
techman@metrolink.net
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