How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

The past day or so has been spent working on the starter. Broke it all down to its components. New rebuild parts are ordered. The casing, front section and end plate have all been sandblasted and painted with semi-gloss black as per the originals. Once back together this should crank the engine nicely. One unfortunate discovery was that the one main connection on the field coil was broken. I'm checking with the company I've ordered the rebuild kits from to see if they have matching field coils. If not I'll go the eBay route and try and find a matching one.

[Jordan Baker]

I'm always amazed at just how many individual parts go into making the vehicles we all love. An example being the copper stud in the starter. It's simple in what it does but takes 8 pieces to do it.

Also you can see where the copper band snapped/corroded away on the field coil. They should be easy to make match last part I noticed was the starter lever. The little contact points were rather heavily worn. I'll be checking the other starters I have to see what condition they are in. If all are similar I figure I'll just rotate them a bit to an unworn section.

[Frank v R]

I may have some NOS field coils , I'll let you know,

[Bob Carriere]

...can be expected after 75 years of being stomped on....

The starter lever, the two little round pill contact points are rpobably still quite usable..... mine were really worn by a 1/3 and I welded them then cleaned up with a dremel grinder. Some times later I found one on EBay NOS that I now have as a spare. The contact box that fits on top of your starter, the one with the copper contacts are also readily available and work replacing at this stage.

If you get new field coils they usually come as a pair fully assembled as a unit.

Good Luck.

[Jordan Baker]

Awesome Frank. I'm waiting to hear back from the rebuild place. I did find an NOS wartimeone one on eBay in Australia. This version came with two separate left and right side field coils. They are only "joined" together when soldered to the copper stud. I've also found others with different part numbers that are apparently the same.

I'll also be replacing the starting motor switch that sits on top of the starter.

[Jordan Baker]

and just heard back from the rebuild shop. He will have a set of coils for me next week.