Just a rant on the quality of re-man accy parts here...

Back when I bought my 92 in 2005, the first thing to go bad on the car was the starter. The car only had 40K miles on it and I figured it just went bad from sittting and not being driven a lot... When I took it off it had an unidentifiable re-man sticker on it. I should have know right then this was going to be a bad trip.

I bought a lifetime replacement from Advance Auto. It lasted fine on the stock engine (a year) but once I built the current engine, it didn't take long for it to start having problems. Bendix froze up type of problems.... go and tap on it with a hammer and it would start.

When I had to fix the new engine I traded it in as defective and got a replacement. It's been fine until last weekend when I decided to actually drive the car somewhere (Saturday car show in Manassas VA). Got to the car show, parked, talked with folks about the car for a while, looked around and decided to go home after an hour or so.... turn the key and nothing. No click, no dim lights, no nothing.... SOB, same thing the other re-man starter was doing. I lay on the ground (thank god EM headers have lots of room around the starter) take my 3D cell Mag Light (of course I have NO tools w/me)and bang it on the starter body a couple of time. Get up off the ground, turn the key and it fires right up.

I hate junk parts. I hate having to replace junk parts with more junk parts, which is what's going to happen. Thinking about jumping the solenoid post on the new starter and putting an external Ford starter solenoid on it. Maybe that will help out....
Will

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That's what I did on my dad's due to header heat. I just had my starter rebuilt at a local electric shop. If this one goes bad from the headers, I'll be putting a ford solenoid on it, too.

Matthew

sux that you have to do that....why not get a starter that actually works the first time.