Dedra starter motor

[toby2449]

ok, very simply how on earth do i remove the starter motor??? Does anyone have an diagrams??? I had a look & tried by taking off two nuts at the left hand side of the motor as you look into the engine bay, & a tiny little nut on the right hand side but it wouldn't budge, so i guess i'm doing something wrong

On a plus side the electronic heating control is now actually working!!!(not sure how that happened!)


cheers guys ones again!

[fay66]

All the manual says is "To remove the starter motor simply disconnect the supply cables and loosen the bolts fixing it to the gearbox"

Sounds like a job for a soft faced hammer and a bit of gentle tapping as it's probably a little bit of Ally Corrosion and muck holding it.

Brian
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[toby2449]

she started!!!!!!! wow, after a year or so of nothing, i got under the bonnet this morning, undid the cabels to the starter motor, have her a few "taps" of a hammer, tighted everything up, reconnected to the battery, & she burst into life! i've never been so amazed to hear a car turn over!!

now to the exhaust, from the noise she makes theres a hold somewhere but not sure where so i've taken the exhaust off the bottom of the car to inspect it, apart from being old & rusty, i can't see any holes, but i know very little about them so i'm a bit lost!! I know ii could get a replacment on ebay but i want to see if i can mend it first!

BTW has anyone ever bought an exhaust off ebay??

[fay66]

Make sure it's not the flexible section in the front pipe,  it's a frequent place for the exhaust to go.

I bought one from a factors in Germany off of ebay, apart from the brackets on the silencer not being quite right, which I got around anyway, no problem,
It was delivered via UPS and was a reasonable price, I wrote up on the forum about it so if you do a search for Dedra Exhaust you'll probably find it.

Brian
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[toby2449]

hi Brian, thanks a million for that, to be honest i would never even have thought of looking at the flexi part of the exhaust, but today i took down all of the exhaust (everything was easy to come off until i got to the flexi unit - boy did that not want to budge!! but with alot of WD40 the nuts finally came around to my way of thinking!!), & there it was, a part of the exhaust where it joins the flexi part has simply rusted away. Looking at it i guess it could be repaired but the rest of the pipe is pretty fragile looking, so i might go onto ebay & see what i can get!

[fay66]

Pleased to help Mark,
if you want the email address of the German Factors let me know.

Brian
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[toby2449]

well i went onto ebay & saw a company in the UK who do the exhaust for approx £70 incl delivery to Ireland, which having looked around alot seems to be a resonable price.

So, i wait to see if it really is clever buying items off ebay!!

I think i might spray the rest of the old exhaust silver to make it look better (not that alot of people will be looking under the car!)

[fay66]

Mark,

That's a pretty good price if it's OK, who is it from?

Brian
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[toby2449]

a company called Autogateway, their feedback on ebay looks decent enough!

[toby2449]

 Oops, just put the new flexi unti on the car & discovered the end of the unit is a triangular shape, & the silencer is square!!! I saw Brian you might have had the same problem, if so how did you get around it??