john_3.0s Posted March 30, 2010 Report Posted March 30, 2010 will a pinto pre-engaged starter fit a crossflow with std manual ring gear / fly wheel? My pre-engager starter has had it and would prefer a pre-engaged one.
Guest cortinamad-gonetoo Posted March 30, 2010 Report Posted March 30, 2010 if at the moment you have the inhertia starter (the one with seperate solinoid on the wing) no it wont work if your already on pre engaged (with the solinoid on the starter) yes it will work to change over from one to the other you also need to change the fylwheel
escort21 Posted March 30, 2010 Report Posted March 30, 2010 No you don't you need to change the ringgear on the flywheel
john_3.0s Posted March 30, 2010 Author Report Posted March 30, 2010 Whos telling the truth then? lol my thoughts.... so has anyone actually used a pre-engaged starter from a pinto on a crossflow without changing the ring gear / flywheel etc?
escortmad4eva Posted March 30, 2010 Report Posted March 30, 2010 i just use an inertia starter with a decent solinoid on my crossflow but always have a spare solinoid as its annoying having to pop bonnet screwdriver on the solinoid. sorry i cant help as i dont know but i was looking into doing this but stayed inertia.
escort21 Posted March 30, 2010 Report Posted March 30, 2010 The pre-engaged and inertia have different no of teeth on the ring-gear so it would jam up if you changed one and not the other Also the teeth on the ring gear may have the teeth chamfered on different sides depending on which side the starter engages/disengages Look on burton power at flywheels, there are two different part no. for the two ring-gears, inertia is 110 teeth, dunno what the other is.... I think you'll find the no. of teeth on the starter is different to, sure you could change the gear on the starter and it'd be sorted
escortmad4eva Posted March 30, 2010 Report Posted March 30, 2010 the inertia ones always jam up every now and then.
escort21 Posted March 30, 2010 Report Posted March 30, 2010 No mate....it would jam up and stay jammed, the teeth wouldn't mesh right, its all about pitch circles on the gears etc Didn't late crossflow mk2 escorts have pre-enagaged starters anyway?
escortmad4eva Posted March 30, 2010 Report Posted March 30, 2010 mines a inertia but i got a 4speed rs box in mine 1980 but who knows
banarama Posted March 30, 2010 Report Posted March 30, 2010 NO THE TEETH ARE DIFFERENT IT WOULD JAM UP.
Yeomans22 Posted March 30, 2010 Report Posted March 30, 2010 my engine needed a pre engaged one, i fitted a inertia one the engine did turn slowly and very noisey, so u need the one to match the flywheel.
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