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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
My most embarrassing moment in my 911 was 20 years ago at the Hershey, PA Porsche Parade. It is a two day drive for me. Everything was fine the first day. As I pulled into the Hershey hotel, right at the front door to check in it was the typical madhouse of many dozens of people trying to check in. My 911 sat for 30 minutes in the HOT weather after a 2.5 hour stint. I climbed in and the starter just went clunk.
The Bosch starter was heat soaked and locked up. So I waved to some friends and asked for a push start in front of several dozen Porsche people. It fired right up. I went and parked to unload the car near my room. I unpacked and went back out to make a beer run, and it fired right up.
I fought that expletive deleted starter through two rebuilds. I finally gave up, and put in a high torque starter and that has been flawless in 110 degree heat drives of two+ hours, and in zero degree F temps.
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Good to know if I need a new starter.
This reminds me a bit when one of the teeth had broken off my 69 911 flywheel. It would start fine- most of the time, until the wheel of misfortune would have the broken tooth line up just right, so the starter would just spin and not turn the engine. It would always do that at the most inopportune times! I'd have to get out and push the car in gear to spin the crank to a point where the starter could grab.