[Bryan]

Well I have fitted the starter motor today and when I went to engage it nothing. at this point I was not amused. So once again I dissasembled it, All I could see was the insulator around the wires on the brush were not perticualy good so I re-screen them. Made sure every thing was clean and rebuilt it.

This time I tested it on the bench before fitting all seamed okay so the real test was would it work once the bolts mounting it to the engine were tight, which was the original problem. When I went for crank it worked first time all be it a bit slow. could be the new oilites are a bit tight or a slightly under powered battery!!

So job done.

In answer to your question Alex regarding the shims. I bought some lucas shims from my local starter motor reconditioner. He did say that not all motors have shims and they are only there to remove any manufacturing tolorances. Basicly a bodge on the manufacturing side to save on scrap!.

I did try and fit the smalliest one but with it in place I could not fit the back plate on. So I decideed to leave them out and see how it goes.

Thanks every one for all your help


On a completly diffrent matter what items would ned to be changed in order to run my engine on 12 volts rather than 6 volts.

Are any of the parts in the distributor Voltage sensative? I under stand the coil. Regulator box, Solinoids and Dynamo would need to be changed but is there anything else?

Thanks again

Bryan