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In that pic with the cracked tooth, the hole the starter goes through looks like it has many little gouges in it that could be keeping the new starters from seating fully. If you remove the clutch, smoothing that surface might help with reassembly later but be careful to remove all grit that might leave behind.
It does look pretty rough in the pic, and I'll take a closer look at it. The clamping surface is 90° from that hole, on the outside of the casing. I did make sure that the starters were seating fully on that face, and I haven't experienced any leaks from the o-ring that goes into that hole but it's worth investigating further.
On a side note, I installed a Muller clutch slave cylinder a while back (great upgrade) and the inner surface that the seal rides on had a lot of machining ridges all the way up the bore. I was fully expecting to have issues with sealing but it's been fine. Amazing what imperfections a seal can overcome.
True, but I get as many days off as I work - except around the holidays. It's awesome most of the year, 3 or 4 days off a week.
Some people love it, you get a week off a month where I work. But if you specific time off it will cost 12 hours a day rather than 8. Myself, I found those 12 hour days were useless at home, so I didn't fell it was really a gain. Plus I hate midnights. We also had a quick turn around from nights to days once a month that sucked.
Again I am not sure I would even do 4 days, probably. But would.
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