[Formulajones]

Well the car was ready to go (minus the hood) to hit the show Saturday with the front end alignment scheduled for tomorrow but as luck would have it, tragedy struck.

Yesterday the RobbMC starter decided to fall apart. The starter pinion gear just......fell off. My father sent this picture into Robb hoping he could send a couple of parts down so I could fix it. Turns out he only offers a repair service that he does himself so the whole starter has to go back.

The good news is that he took one look at the picture, said that gear should have never fallen off and that it wasn't assembled properly with Loctite that he uses on the splines. You can clearly see in the pic there was never any Loctite on the splines, and both 3/32 brass balls that secure the gear just fell out, leaving the gear along for the ride getting beat up by the flywheel. Realizing that, even though my father has had this starter for 3 years and should be well out of warranty, Robb offered to fix it on his dime, even though I just wanted to buy some parts to repair it myself.
So just wanted to say Robb stands behind his product and I'll continue to use his services. Unfortunately the car is down until the starter comes back.