John, That is true, but you have to know where to get parts and be willing to buy them wherever. The biggest problem is drives and solenoids' and there is no sub for them. I have ample supply of both that I bought 3 or 4 years ago, so when we rebuild it gets new parts. We can also rewind solenoids which some people won't do. The moral of the story is don't throw away the old parts, I'll take the old ones and recycle them. Just like water pumps, I have ample supply of new water pumps which some people don't and they just want to rebuild them which in most cases is OK. There isn't much to them. Anyway just my 2 cents. John Hervey www.specialTauto.com << I had a similar problem with the starter, and spoke at length about it with Warren at DMC (Texas). He said that many of the internal parts in the starter are non-existent, and anyone who says they rebuild them are only disassembling and cleaning them up. ----<snip> >>