Replaced the starter this weekend. Holy Cow!
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It took 4-5 hours and that included messing around for an hour trying to figure out how to get to the top bolt and also changing the oil. I used the instructions on p-car.com which are great, but my hands are obviously bigger than the guy who wrote the instructions. Finally I loosened the engine bolts and lowered it 1-2" so I could reach over the top of the starter. Got the starter off in a few minutes after that. Other than that, I pretty much followed the p-car instructions. I did this yesterday afternoon and I am sore this morning. if I were rich, I would gladly pay for this to be done.
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Mine was still working fine at 45,000 miles, but I had a fingernails-on-chalkboard screeching noise on start-up that I couldn't eliminate. It was the starter. I had my favorite local shop do it. Starting with a hot car, they did it in under two hours. I think the tech has asbestos arms.
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I see this job in my near future.
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Where did you get the starter from?
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I got it from Vertex. It was the least expensive of the Porsche parts places that I had used in the past.
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Got one step of hell worse for ya. Evidently at one time when the motor was out of the car, some brilliant mechanic thought to just put a regular screw in the top spot so you would have to drop the motor to get too it with a tool that would work... $$$ later I had a new starter and a pissed mechanic.
Oh the joys you find on a used race car.
Oh the joys you find on a used race car.
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Eewwww ...sorry to hear it was such a PITA!
I'm at 131k miles on the original starter. No symptoms yet, and I hope to keep it that way (knocking on desktop!!)
Edward
I'm at 131k miles on the original starter. No symptoms yet, and I hope to keep it that way (knocking on desktop!!)
Edward