[Healeys] Accessing lower bolt on starter motor.

[e-wilkins at cox.net]

When I saw that John Sims was responding to this thread, I fully expected the message to say "I have an article about this bolt on my website in the technical section..."

Wilko

---- John Sims <ahbn6 at verizon.net> wrote: 
> My wife rates the difficulty (and necessity) of the work by the assortment
> of extremely off color words that are used. Wouldn't be fun if things were
> easy.
> 
> John Sims, BN6
> Aberdeen, NJ
>  
> http://www.healey6.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of John & Kerry rowe
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 11:09 AM
> To: 'Derek Job'
> Cc: Healey List
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Accessing lower bolt on starter motor.
> 
> Derek
> I did this 2 weeks ago. Took about 2-3 hours with lots of swearing etc. Had
> to put the bolt from the rear with a narrower nut in the front.Took a bit of
> fiddling to get the nut started. Used an open end spanner on the nut and a
> ratchet socket on the bolt (Put spring washer on bolt end and used Loctite
> and will have to keep an eye on it. I used about a 2" extension on the
> socket. In retrospect, I should have removed the slave cylinder. I also had
> to remove the modified oil filter.
> Ps you also need thin fingers)
> But in the end it was well worth it!!
> 
> John Rowe  Qld Australia
> 
> BN1 BT7