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Originally Posted by doviatt
The starter in my last Metro must have been from an army tank. It worked flawlessly the entire time I owned the car. I'm not sure how long it served the previous owner. The cool part is, the last six months of this wonderful cars life was driven without a clutch after it (clutch) failed. The starter was used at every stop to not only start the engine but to move the car, in first gear to get it going.
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That's why older 4Runners have a clutch safety deactivation switch. If you stall them in the middle of nowhere and need to get out of a tough situation, you can push the button, and the starter will engage with your foot off the clutch pedal, using the starter to get the thing moving. Of course, all cars in the "old days" (I'm guessing pre '80s?) had this as they didn't have the safety switch to start with, and I have used it more than once to get one of my broken POS's out of an intersection rather than push it ha ha.
