[DeTomaso] Starter Odyssey

[thomas]

Perhaps it is a shim plate to convert it from an auto to manual starter? #9321 has an aluminum spacer, about 1/4" thick, attached to the nose of the stock Ford starter and my theory is that it has a starter for an automatic transmission and DeTomaso converted it to manual. 

Thomas

27 jul 2013 kl. 22:33 skrev "Mikael" <mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk>:

> "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
> 
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> 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
> 
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