BigDogRick
Well-Known Member
Since I seem to be on a roll here, learning something I should have known over a decade ago: here's a heads up to my fellow vintage owners. I am on my third starter having fought with the OEM for six years after it was seven years old. Every mechanic I spoke with dissuaded me from replacing the starter with the statement that my old starter was some kind of gem from antiquity not replaceable by any contemporary replacement. I would reply, "you are not being stranded in the high desert a couple hundred miles from civilization and water with your smug old school engineering confidence. If the starter is fine then why am I weazing like a 90 year old at 7000+ feet, gasping for oxygen because my fabulous old school starter won't start my bike as I push start it on some remote 2% downhill grade if I am lucky enough to be near one?" They would, of course just stare at me. Seriously ... at least a dozen mechanics.