time to replace starter?

[corylang@dccnet.com (Cory Langford)]

If wacking the starter with a hammer or other solid object sometimes gets
it started  - this usually ends up being a solenoid is getting stuck.

BUT, engaging your gears and rocking the car while your try to engage your
starter can be a bad spot on the starter brushes.  


Either way, easier to replace the thing if you aren't going to rebuild it :)


Cory


At 09:11 PM 03/23/2003 -0800, Robbie Cotner wrote: 
>>>>

As of late my starter will just do nothing when I turn the key(~1 out of
every 5 starts).  Repeated whacking of the solenoid with my long reach ice
scraper will make it start sometimes, and sometimes if that doesn't work I
shift around the gears and push in the clutch, and it eventually
starts(could just be coincidence, I don't know.... it's weird, sometimes
I'll be trying repeatedly with the clutch in and it will do nothing, then I
release the clutch and it starts, and sometimes vis-versa).  Anyway, is
there any remedy to this problem other than starter replacement?  I suppose
I could just replace the solenoid?  For anyone who has had this problem,
how much longer did your starter last?  thanks-

Rob



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