Removal of Starter Motor

[Neil Ashley]

Can any one comment please on how easy I am going to find taking the starter motor off my Canadian Mk11* Carrier.

I have removed the Tool Box, hopefully the Fuel Tank does not also need to be removed.

[kevin powles]

Neil, I think you will have to remove the tank, the starter is held on by two studs which pass the complete length of the starter and hold it all together so be careful not to let it all fall to bits on removal, I regret the day when I first removed one of these and received a blunt trauma to my left eye.

be careful.

kevin.

[shaun]

Neil, you should be able to get it off leaving all that in place and just removing the lower engine pannel by the statrer, remember the starter is forward of the fuel tank etc. its not to bad a job, i have done it on the side of the road before now.

[Ron Pier]

I didn't know you had a MK2 Neil? Send me some pictures sometime please.

I was getting ready to remove the starter on mine a few months back. I was also hoping to get away without taking the tank out. It looked possible! Which Shaun has confirmed. As you might remember. Mine is fitted with a 12V system and remote solenoid for the starter. It was in fact the solenoid that was the problem. Ron

[Neil Ashley]

Ron I have had my Mk11* for a long time but it has never moved out the garage. It must be one of the most complete in the country if you still need to measure up for anything.

It must be a very tight fit to actually withdraw it and trying to work out where the bolts are and how to get on to them was putting me off.

[Ron Pier]

Neil I'll have to come to Trowbridge one day!

For what's involved! It might be just as easy to remove the tank anyway. After squirming about in the confined areas of a carrier I always end up suffering with my gammy limbs. Ron

[andrew honychurch]

Hi Neil,

I guess the strength in the way the starter is held ( I thought the same) is that it is pulled into the bell housing and locates in the recess, the screws therefore only really hold it in. Heck of job though working upside down. I have been adjusting my control rods on the T16 for the rear steering controls. Every time I re emerge my family wonder what has happened to me as my eyes go rather bulging from working upside down.

The restoration of my T16 has given me more of a workoout than any session in the GYM. Everytime I get in the thing to do a job I find the tool I need is outside or on the other side of the engine bay. I cannot tell you how many times I have got in and out of it!

[Neil Ashley]

I am still nursing the bruises of performing all sorts of unnatural contortions to gain access to where I needed to get. I also ended up finding I was crushing something painfull at one stage.

The bolts were not done up particularly tight when I removed it and fear of striping the threads restricted the pressure I put on them this time.

Can anyone confirm where the thin wire goes to which also attaches on the starter motor terminal? The driver hand boook does not include a deatailed wiring diagram.