Topic: starter for 68 small block w/ at

[mikeinvegas]

Hi everyone,

I had my starter rebuilt yesterday and now there is an interferance issue with the flywheel....

What is the difference between the starters for and automatic vs. a manual trans?

Any chance that they might have rebuilt it with a wrong part and that is what is causing this nightmare?

Any help would help....

Thanks,

Mike In Vegas

[J_Speegle]

Its my experience that for some reason this is very typical (wrong starter - or snout in wrong marked box)

Something people have been complaining about for 20+ years

[mikeinvegas]

ok, after further investigation..... here's what I've got.

I took the starter back and discussed the situation.. Nothing, including the cone-shaped piece was changed.

The guts were rebuilt.

The noise seems to be some some fragments of something inside the bellhousing..

The fragments are steel and are shaped like the cylindrical eraser on the end of a No.2 pencil and then some other wire-like garbage similar in gauge size to a staple that would come from a desktop type stapler..

Could this be fragment of the former guts of my starter?

Could the cylindrical pieces be part of a bearing that was previously inside the starter?

Very bizarre.

Thanks

MIV

[TLea]

This is very common and actually was covered in a Shelby TSB years ago. Proper starter is the C7AF B not the F. Also make sure you have the 302 bellhousing not the 289 one. Either of those will allow it to work for a while then fail

[macdude67]

the cylindrical pieces of metal that look like erasers that you mentioned are indeed the roller bearing out of the bendix assembly that gets spun out by the starter to make contact with the flex plate ring gear. the bendix is a sub assembly of most starters.

[macdude67]

tried posting a picture but can't you can do a ebay search for ford starter bendix and see what i am referring to.