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  1. My starter is acting up, and I wanted to troubleshoot it. But for an Avid Mk IV, it is all the way in back, in its little cubby hole, and sure looked like I had to pull the entire engine to get at it. But what I did instead was cut a hole in the back side of that cubby hole, and open up a flap door that gives me access to the whole starter. An hour after I started the job, I had the starter in my hand. I could have drilled out the rivets, but there is so little room back there, and I don't have an angle-head drill, so a quick job with my 3" cutoff tool did the trick. When I finish with my trouble shooting, I intend to clap a new piece of sheet steel on the hole and rivet it in. There is a ground wire that runs from the forward face bolt to the starter bell housing (#13 in the parts diagram)  that I had to cut since the bolt is almost impossible to get to even with the new hole. I will re-run the grounding wire on re-assembly, probably to a more accessible bolt on the engine case. The photo of the hole is taken from the pilot's knee position looking up toward the firewall.