VWNate is right, of course. You CAN redo a starter yourself. When I started wrenching we did all of ours in-house at the Buick dealer. If we redid one and it didn't work it meant it had a bad armature (rare) and we'd get a replacement (we didn't have a growler to check them nor a lathe to turn the brush area). These were the days when there weren't parts stores on every street corner and there were few rebuilders in the business and none in our area.

All that said, we have a good rebuild shop here in Wilmington and they stand behind their work so I have them do my stuff these days. They did the starter and the alternator (both Bosch) on Mutt and everything works groovily. I've decided that I only have so many hours in my day and I need to decide where to spend them. If they do my electrical bits I can do other stuff, like build a race truck.

Dan