Chrysler starter spin down time

PhillH said

That makes sense about them being poorly rebuilt, I'm sure most all of them I thought just normal were actually parts store rebuilds, I don't specifically remember any of them being short lived back then but I wasn't paying attention back then either. Remember, you could get a starter for what, around $30 at the parts store back then. Now the same exact starter, probably literally the same one rebuilt again is $80. Good times.

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Its just like many things today,the work is done outside the USA by underpaid,unskilled labor o cut costs,and even some of the local shops who should know better are incompetent. it took two tries for the rebuilder to correctly rebuild an old MOpar autolite generator for me so it would actually function,it never occurred to them to test it before it went out the first time.

I paid $44 for the starter for a local parts store with a lifetime warranty. I called all around first and all the rebuilds are either from Mexico or China. The one I have now bears a sticker that says it was rebuilt by autolite but doesn't say if the work was done in the USA,either way it still spins down for 5 seconds like the last one.

These are good starters,they made them for like 25 years! a friend had a 71 Duster and I don't ever recall the starter going out in the 15+ years he owned it.