Starter Repair

After driving the truck for about a week, I started having problems starting it. At first it looks like I was flooding it by giving it too much gas. Later I thought it was the battery. Finally we discovered the starter had lost half of its cranking power due to some of the magnets separating inside it.

I had the truck towed to Steve’s friend Andrew’s shop where we pulled the starter out. Steve shook the starter in his hand and you could hear a rattle inside. The problem was finding a matching starter to replace it. It took several attempts at the auto parts stare to find that it took a 1968 unique starter rather than a 1970 starter which we believed it needed. After getting the correct starter it took only two minutes to have the starter installed and running!