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The ring gear in our '64 had been giving me fits, starter engagement due to wear on the ring gear became a game of "Starter Roulette". On a day late in November the engine failed to start on first partial spin, subsequent efforts unsuccessful, until the Bendix JAMMED in the gear. The last straw. Ordered a torque-reduction starter, engagement from the front side of the ring gear. Took a bit of fettling, on my back on the concrete driveway where the car had been parked last. Did most of the task from the top side, dizzy, oil cooler lines and dipstick removed, then removing the original Bendix starter and lowering it out the bottom. New one placed from the top, upper bolt went in with no issue. Had to use the "Braille" method of fiddling the bottom bolt into the replacement starter and getting the nut to start. Then it became a contest of patience; only tool to fit the space where the nut could be tightened wouldn't allow anything but an open-end wrench and that only an eighth of a turn before flipping the tool 180° and reacquiring the nut by feel to advance another eighth of a turn... BORING!!
After all was in place and battery reconnected, the thing spun up sounding like an APU for an F-4! But the engine didn't start. Sat too long outdoors, no spark. Dizzy out, points cleaned with file, rotor contact brass cleaned with #600 wet-or-dry, Dizzy reinstalled. Engine turned by hand to set timing mark, static timed the dizzy, hit the starter and VROOM!!!!
If any decide to make this starter change (and I will highly recommend it), do it on a lift or where you can access the underside of the vehicle easily.
When the clutch needs replacement a new ring-gear will be fitted.
After all was in place and battery reconnected, the thing spun up sounding like an APU for an F-4! But the engine didn't start. Sat too long outdoors, no spark. Dizzy out, points cleaned with file, rotor contact brass cleaned with #600 wet-or-dry, Dizzy reinstalled. Engine turned by hand to set timing mark, static timed the dizzy, hit the starter and VROOM!!!!
If any decide to make this starter change (and I will highly recommend it), do it on a lift or where you can access the underside of the vehicle easily.
When the clutch needs replacement a new ring-gear will be fitted.
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