[vwsamba]

Thank you all so much for looking at your bikes posting pics and helping me out. That's just the clarification i needed. My starter was definitely wrong. I just took the starter back and they said to reverse it the magnets would have to be in the other way around so i suspect that they assembled the main body the wrong way around. The denso sticker was at the nose end but i do not recall if it was at the cap end before? i'll find out after the hols. I will be giving thanks for this forum! Happy thanksgiving all.

[vwsamba]

Just to wrap up the thread it was indeed the starter that had been rebuilt to run in the wrong rotation Even the shop could not tell why so i would not have been able to convince them without everyones help here so again many thanks and happy hols.