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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Milwaukee wi
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Starter shiming
I put a new flywheel in my 69 chevy 350 c10.
I am putting in a mini torque starter. Everything I have done for shinning the pinion hits the flywheel. If I get the pinion in the flywheel it slides back and forth easily until I pop it completely out. Once I do what it back to nicking the flywheel again. Any suggestion would be appreciated Thanks |
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Re: Starter shiming
Are you sure you need to shim it? I recently put a new AC Delco "mini" starter and flexplate in my Nova and the directions said to use no shims with this type of starter. It works great.
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Re: Starter shiming
If I do not use any shims the pinion will hit the flywheel when I manually pull out the starter pinion
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Re: Starter shiming
Do you have a mismatched flywheel to starter?
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Re: Starter shiming
Did you check the new flex plate with the old one to be sure they are the same size before you installed it?
Pertaining to your other thread, Once you have that figured out, make a bracket to hold the back of the starter up. Also, how do you plan on fixing the crack in the starter hole? That needs to be fixed or you will probably keep having these issues with the starter.
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Re: Starter shiming
Everything matches. The pinion just nics the flywheel
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Re: Starter shiming
can you let us in on starter brand? flywheel brand? part numbers? Then I can "google" the proper install instructions and cut and paste them for ya
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Re: Starter shiming
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I learned a lesson from that. 9 tooth starter pinion on a 153 tooth flexplate and an 11 tooth pinion on a 168 tooth flexplate; NO EXCEPTIONS unless you want to spend a week or two trying to get one to work and then damage the teeth on the flexplate and have to change that too! |
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Re: Starter shiming
I have an 11 tooth starter
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