Well that's all folks. This shows what I did to rejuvenate my starter motor. I didn't really rebuild it as I didn't replace a single thing – except some M5 bolts, new paint and I added some extra shims. But from the photographs I hope that if you need to do more work on your starter you can see that there are only two bearing surfaces: one in the end cap and the other in the engaging mechanism's housing. You may need to replace brushes – they are held in place by springs. You may need to get the commutator turned. If the armature is damaged then I guess that it might be time to say bye bye – but other than that I think the majority of these units are salvageable. I'm not sure if you can do much with the solenoid. Perhaps someone can enlighten me?

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!