{"id":14,"date":"2009-07-16T22:57:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T05:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2009-07-16T23:36:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T06:36:24","slug":"71109-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/71109-starter\/","title":{"rendered":"7\/11\/09 – Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The night before was my first time looking over the bus as I bought it by proxy of\u00a0 my friend Reid May.\u00a0 He owns an older karmann ghia and was heading down to Fresno from Oakland.\u00a0 He did a great job describing it.\u00a0 It’s an older car and has condition issues.<\/p>\n

The year my car was made, a 6v electrical system was used.\u00a0 About 10 years ago the bus was converted to 12v.\u00a0 Some things were easy to convert and somethings a bit more difficult were left to be delt with, such as the starter.<\/p>\n

The starter is a 6v system that runs on 12v.\u00a0 The 6v starter can run on 12 volts, but should not be heavily used.\u00a0 Mine in particular had a looseness to it that is caused over time by the hammering of the 6v solinoid running on 12volts.\u00a0 This looseness allowed the starter to engage when it shouldn’t as well as fail to engage when it should.<\/p>\n

The pain of trying to run a 12v starter in this bus is that 12v starters are built to work with a larger flywheel, which requires grinding out a lot of metal to install.\u00a0 Wayne Johnson said he would ship out this hybrid starter<\/a> in a week or so.<\/p>\n

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Dad proping open the engine compartmen.<\/p><\/div>\n

Took off the bumper for easier access and my dad loosened the starter’s bolt from back right wall of the engine compartment behind the fan cover and clamped vice grips on it.\u00a0 From underneath I could get a ratchet on it and loosen it the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

At this time Glenn showed up in his perfect 56 bug and took me over to Lester’s house, who has a\u00a0 finished 59 delux and a panel for his son.\u00a0 Lester mentioned an oil bath air filter he might part with for a reasonable price and that I should get the starter tested at Sebring West.\u00a0 Glenn took me back and I along with my Dad finished pulling out the starter.\u00a0 It’s hefty and tight in places to maneuver around the break cables and heater tubes.<\/p>\n

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original Bosch 6v starter<\/p><\/div>\n

My Dad turned over the engine as I took photographs of the flywheel teeth as well as feeling them.\u00a0 The teeth were pretty square, but effected by the starter.\u00a0 I’ve got those photos on my Dad’s computer, so I’ll update with them.<\/p>\n

Off to Sebring West to get the starter tested.\u00a0 It was toast, but they had both 6v and 12v starters that my Dad and I looked at that were noticeably different in size and teeth spacing.\u00a0 We decided to do some more research before buying a replacement, so I tested the voltage with a volt meter when we got home and verified that it was indeed running off of 12v.\u00a0 After a pasta dinner at my great aunt’s house I was looking online and came across Wayne’s ad.\u00a0 He’s a nice guy and I hope the new replacement will work well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The year my car was made there was a 6v electrical system used. About 10 years ago the bus was converted to 12v and some things were easy to convert and somethings a bit more difficult were left to be delt with, such as the starter. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,7,5,6],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mybus","tag-1963-vw-panel-bus","tag-bosch-hybrid-612-starter","tag-starter-motor","tag-wayne-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}