Oh No! Not again!!

You may remember this time last year I found a wee problem

I had been checking things out and found a significant break in my flywheel housing around the starter. I replaced the housing and re installed the starter. When I did I was showing pictures to my mechanic, and he said "huh! whats that?" referring to a spacer installed in-between the starter and the housing. I replied that it is the spacer that came with the starter. He looked dubious, and politely said " I don't think that should be there, that may be why it cracked!?"

At this point it was all back together and working swimmingly......and I really didn't want to take the starter out again. So I thought (in my ignorance)"Nah! It'll be fine....."

Damn you Sinclair.

Again my starter has been acting up, I assumed it was electrical....bad solenoid, bad ground, bad juju...

So I decided to remove the starter to bench test it, and when I did......

The flywheel housing was busted again! Not as bad but still!!!!

So yet again, I dropped the tranny, and removed the flywheel housing.

The break is contained to a bolt flange of the starter mount

This was a way better thing to do in May rather than January. After freezing my tukus off outside I spent some time in the shop figuring out my next move. Which is finding a true welder to repair my blunder.

In the meantime, why not tear apart the kitchen for a little design upgrade? 

The kitchen tear down is really to gain access to the water fill port which requires the plumbing to be temporarily disconnected. The Billet aluminum lid was super corroded due to years of neglect. It was so seized I had to cut it off to get it out. Thankfully I had already acquired a replacement.