[DeTomaso] Starter Odyssey

[Mikael]

"Shim plate"?! One of the things I liked when moving from SBCs to Clevelands
was that I didn't have to shim every starter I installed. The Cleveland
starters just fit. Have I just been lucky? To me tools included in the box
to compensate for manufacturing variances is not a good thing...

Good luck with it

Mikael

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Fra: Boyd Casey [mailto:boyd411 at gmail.com] 
Sendt: 27. juli 2013 02:00
Til: detomaso at poca.com
Emne: [DeTomaso] Starter Odyssey

Well for those of you who are still following my starter debacle I am happy
to say that I received my new IMI Hi Torque PMGR starter today and  If you
can judge a book by it's cover this is going to be great. The Fit and finish
is superb and the design is clearly superior. It has a mounting plate that
gives you the ability to turn the starter in  a number of positions to find
the optimum position to avoid headers and minimize heat issues, it also has
a shim plate so you can be sure the drive gear is in the correct position to
engage the flywheel. I don't think I ever got excited by a starter before
but it is truly a thing of beauty. I am installing it on Monday and will let
everyone know how it goes and  I will also report on the postmortem of the
DB electric starter. If anyone would like to see some pictures of the
starter let me know and I will post them or send them to you.
Boyd