Starter Woe's for Tweety

The stock (Big) Ford starter took a dump after the first few starts . So I ordered (2) new ones from dbelectric(the ebay ones).Well, I had to do some grinding on the end snout before it would even bolt up. Then when I hit the start switch,the cog wont engage the flywheel. It looks like the starter is in towards the engine side to far ,it won't catch the flywheel teeth. I put another stock starter I had on it,but it don't have enough grunt to get the job done when the engine is warm. I've been bustin my A$$ on this thing trying to be able to test before next week. Has anyone else ran into any of this w/these dbelec. mini starters?

I used to run a Ford gear reduction starter from O'reilly. It was a little close to the flywheel so I slotted the lower bolt hole. The nice thing about that style is that since the gear is not centered between the bolts, slotting one hole will let you rotate it away from the wheel. I don't know what case you are using but I've heard the JW powerglide bell housings aren't very close. I've had two friends use them and they both had issues with starter alignment.

Thats xactly what I'm going to do,slot the bottom hole and move it out a hair. I think that may work. keep ur fingers crossed Thanks

Have used the small starters from the 1995 f350......prolly the same deal, never had an issue,

My starter woes were the DB was too FAR From the flexplate. Turns out my Scat flexplate was too small (!!) Changed to a generic Pioneer plate, been perfect.

I like the Ford truck starter much better than those denso type gear reduction starters and I've ran both.

I got mine from O'Reilly with a "lifetime" warranty

bbf-falcon wrote:Thats xactly what I'm going to do,slot the bottom hole and move it out a hair. I think that may work. keep ur fingers crossed Thanks

I had to do that with my DB. So far so good.


TJ

Thx Guy's

Starter woe's are over,ended up taking a Mini Hi torque for a stick and machining the housing mount back 3/8". That little baby is the berries. Thanks for the replies guy's and thanks to my friends that called to help.

I found this for ya today http://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/pts/1720808811.html but I see your ok now good luck.

Thanks Charles,