"If you still have the old fence you can reuse it, maybe. I had a similar thing and I added a couple of new posts between the old ones, so now I have a post every 4'. Screwed the old fence to the new posts and it's held just fine. Excuse the pavers iin the pics, I'm in the middle of a project, but you can see the new posts. Pretty easy to do too.
Is $950.00 for a starter typical for a JK? Seems about triple what it should be to me."
The fence is over 30 years old. Everything was rotting.
950 was for the starter and labor. Everything is jacked up these days. I wanted an oem starter because the reviews I have seen for others has serious longevity issues. This one has a 2 year warranty on the starter and labor.
I seriously thought about doing it myself. I have done a few on other vehicles. But after watching a couple of videos it looked like a b*tch. That said there apparently is also an starter actuator in the steering column that could have been this issue. I didn’t want to replace the starter only to find out it was the actuator.
OBTW this starter is on back order from the factory so there was a extra premium to get it quickly from another dealer.