[DeTomaso] starter fit

[Curt Hall]

Ken...
 
I also have a Tilton starter I got used which fit fine but when I started the engine the starter hung up and made a God awful noise! When I called Tilton they told me they never made a starter for a Cleveland? I got another thicker nose for the starter from Tommy Hodges, I think from a 460 engine so the gear didn't stick out so far! Hopefully that is the same nose you got?
 
Good Luck
Curt


--- On Mon, 1/17/11, Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
Subject: [DeTomaso] starter fit
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Monday, January 17, 2011, 7:31 PM


I have been playing with a couple starters I am selling to make sure they fit, and found a great drawing on the Tilton web site:
 
http://tiltonracing.com/pdfs/4167.pdf
 
I have a Tilton Super Starter with a different nose, and after talking to the Tilton Tech line ordered the nose on the PN 54-10018 starter:
 
http://tiltonracing.com/incs/imagethumb.php?picture=s0053
 
which they said would work on a SBF with a manual transmission.  They also said the starter gear for an automatic needs to stick out farther to engage the flex plate.  Installation instructions are here:
 
http://tiltonracing.com/pdfs/98-095.pdf
 
showing the relationship of the starter gear and ring gear.  It appears everything fits, I just wondered if the material Tilton provided agrees with what others have found? 
 
A long time ago I thought people said that a Cleveland used a different starter, but it looks like that was incorrect?
 
Ken
 
 
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