Re: '51 Delco-Remy Starter Rebuild

Posted by Jim L. in OR On 2011/12/7 22:08:36

Thank you Howard once again.

I'm going to print out your answer and take it with me tomorrow.

From your description of how the starting procedure is supposed to take place, I wonder if there was anything wrong with my starter in the first place. I do suspect I need to rebuild the carb - as when cold, the engine seems to take it's time getting all 8 up and firing. It's a slow build of RPM which might make the retraction of the of the pinion problematic.

Anyway, thanks to you I feel I can at least go in and stake out a position. I didn't even know about anti-kickback pin so I would have been really at sea.

If nothing else, I have a beautiful starter. If my camera hadn't quit on me, I would have posted more pictures to show what a truly great job they did.

As I sit here mulling over your response, I can imagine I'll be told to install the starter and that then everything will be fine. We'll see.

I'll let you know how it all turns out.

Maybe I'll even get to the engine number tomorrow!