Re: '51 Delco-Remy Starter Rebuild

Posted by Jim L. in OR On 2011/12/8 21:56:45

Thank you Howard!

I printed out the SC you mentioned along with the STB. Armed with those as well as your posting last night I went forward to the rebuilder. It turns out that you and he were on the same "page". He also said that the Bendix Drive he installed was of the "new" type mentioned in the Service Counselor of Sept. 1952.

So, home I go to install my new starter. I must say that the difference was amazing. I had been getting clanging, thuds and loud operation. It wasn't how I remember my Grandmother's '35 sounding when starting but I figured that was a lot of years ago. I did check the ring gear to make sure it was still OK and it was undamaged.

From the first moment I pressed down on the accelerator, I realized just how near death my starter had been. I had forgotten to put in my hearing aid (needed from too much time spent in Disco's during the '70s) and I could barely hear the starter operating. What I did hear was a lot closer to Gram's '35 than what I was hearing formerly. It now sounds like a Packard!

So Thank you once again Howard and all.

Didn't get to the engine number today - ran out of warmth with temperatures dipping into the 30's by 4pm. Hopefully tomorrow.