[sailingchance]

So the specialist and I took everything apart and the armiture and coils are fukackta. We are going the rebuild route. We found a place in ohio that can ship us new coils and an armiture for $150 with shipping. Not bad.

Something I discovered through all of this. The part number of my starter: MZ4153 came out of the factory as a 6v starter. Now it may have been rebuilt as a 12v at some point in the last 50 years but since the armiture is the same and my coils look like einsteins hair, we cant tell.

The 12v version is MBG 4129. The only difference being the brushes and field coils. The engine start(ed) smooth and he said the I could have potentially run a 6v starter on a 12v system for a long time (but with failure always looking). Who knows.

Money spent. Knowledge gained. Now... Given all this talk of hand cranking, I am trying to conceive of the best way to do this (for my own future safety). I can get to the back in a pinch if necesary. How would I turn the engine off if cranked by hand? Starve the fuel?

Jason