Starter Solenoid Insulating pad Part Number
09-10-2006, 06:13 AM
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Starter Solenoid Insulating pad Part Number
Hi,
Does anybody know if there is a seperate part number for the red electrical insulating pad that rests underneath the contacts in the starter solenoid for the 3VZE starter? See picture below:
Mine is worn right through underneath the battery side contact, due to the whole contact rotating when I tried to remove the nut holding the battery cable on the starter when I was removing the starter from the engine bay.
If I can't buy just the pad, I'm planning on making one. If I can find a piece of that insulating material, I can use my old pad as a template, and my dremel tool to cut the new one out. Any ideas as to where I could find a piece of that material?
Does anybody know if there is a seperate part number for the red electrical insulating pad that rests underneath the contacts in the starter solenoid for the 3VZE starter? See picture below:
Mine is worn right through underneath the battery side contact, due to the whole contact rotating when I tried to remove the nut holding the battery cable on the starter when I was removing the starter from the engine bay.
If I can't buy just the pad, I'm planning on making one. If I can find a piece of that insulating material, I can use my old pad as a template, and my dremel tool to cut the new one out. Any ideas as to where I could find a piece of that material?
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09-12-2006, 08:07 PM
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Well, just to close off this thread in case somebody else runs into this problem, after thinking about this issue a bit, I looked in an old home fuse box that I had laying around in the garage, and found that behind the bus bars was a sheet of 1/16" thick mica insulating material. Perfect! I used the old insulating pad from the starter solenoid (which is also made of mica, I believe) as a template to trace out the new pad, then used my dremel tool to cut it out. It ended up being a perfect fit.
Also, I decided to make a new motor side copper starter contact out of a piece of copper flat stock that I had laying around. It was a bit time consuming to cut and bend the contact, and to do the final shaping using a grinding wheel on my dremel, so that it is exactly the same as a new one, but it saved me $20 (Yep. That's what a starter contact kit costs here... for one side of the solenoid.) I bought the kit for the battery side, because the bolt, nut, spacers and o-ring all needed to be replaced, but on the motor side, only the contact itself needed to be replaced, which is why I decided to make it.
Also, I decided to make a new motor side copper starter contact out of a piece of copper flat stock that I had laying around. It was a bit time consuming to cut and bend the contact, and to do the final shaping using a grinding wheel on my dremel, so that it is exactly the same as a new one, but it saved me $20 (Yep. That's what a starter contact kit costs here... for one side of the solenoid.) I bought the kit for the battery side, because the bolt, nut, spacers and o-ring all needed to be replaced, but on the motor side, only the contact itself needed to be replaced, which is why I decided to make it.
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