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[terry paget]

I am following GastronomicKleptomaniac's excellent maintenance guide. Fitting new starter, he says 'Wiggle the starter into place, refit top bolt by a few threads' and here I am stuck. I am working from above, I seem to be able to get the starter into place, though it is able to rotate about 60 degrees, then I strive to fit the top bolt. It is difficult to locate the point where the hole is aligned with the thread, and impossible to turn the bolt when i think it is in the right place.

What am I doing wrong?

[Johnny English]

I did it from below Terry, took half an hour only.    one jack and one axle stand I used there, the stand to the chassis and the jack to the engine, remove the coolant bottle having a bit more place to work easily and come on! I was removing the engine mount then the starter. A little bit I had to lift on the engine when removing the mount but was no more disturbing circumstance. Good luck ! 


Laszlo

[terry paget]

I did it from below Terry, took half an hour only.    one jack and one axle stand I used there, the stand to the chassis and the jack to the engine, remove the coolant bottle having a bit more place to work easily and come on! I was removing the engine mount then the starter. A little bit I had to lift on the engine when removing the mount but was no more disturbing circumstance. Good luck ! 
Well done! I have changed four starters on 2 litre Omegas, but I could see what I was doing then. This job seems to be all done by touch.

Which bolt did you put in first, top or bottom?

Laszlo

[Johnny English]

I did it from below Terry, took half an hour only.    one jack and one axle stand I used there, the stand to the chassis and the jack to the engine, remove the coolant bottle having a bit more place to work easily and come on! I was removing the engine mount then the starter. A little bit I had to lift on the engine when removing the mount but was no more disturbing circumstance. Good luck ! 
Well done! I have changed four starters on 2 litre Omegas, but I could see what I was doing then. This job seems to be all done by touch.

Which bolt did you put in first, top or bottom?

Laszlo

I can't remember surely as there was so much place that it was no matter mate. IIRW the top one was the first though...

[chrisgixer]

Having done an alternator recently, I would have presumed to go from underneath. Would that help access?

[terry paget]

Thanks for help, Johnny and Chris. I finally got the bottom bolt in, working from below, by propping the starter in with a piece of timber and turning it round poking an allen key through the bottom hole in the starter until I located the thread in the flywheel housing. Then I screwed in bottom bolt, then top bolt went straight in.

I found it a difficult job. I take off my hat to Johnny, doing it in half an hour.

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

I must have been lucky with mine then 

[PhilRich]

I must have been lucky with mine then 

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Ah, but you've got Surgeons fingers GK
Or should that be pickpockets fingers