Re: '51 Delco-Remy Starter Rebuild

Posted by steve-52/200 On 2011/12/16 16:58:04

Ive gone through a bunch of rebuilt starters for my 52 200,I got them from Kanter and Max Merrit each time they end up not working so well or failing one even sort of exploded internally ,probably engaging while engine running ,always nicley painted but they must not have fixed the internals
,they would act like the bendix would be 1/2 retracted by nature of a scraping noise that sounded the little gear was contacting the spinning flywheel .I was advised to shim the starter ,
interestingly the problems ended with a rewire! I figure they're ,must have been a current leak from a short holding the bendix out partway .a local quality rebuilder did the last one and with the new engine harness I havent had any problems except if the battery went low ,(I had a bad generator rebuild and didnt realize it !)
The start swich(new replacement) in the carb would stick "on" and the starer would stay engaged ,I took it apart and honed out the little channel that the sliding thing with the ball and bevel and spring is in which seems to help .Interestingly when I had to use a 12 v jump box to start the car jump ,the start switch would not disengage untill I took of the 12 volt battery clips from the battery poles funny how all the proper function rely's on other component proper function ,and one thing out starte to knock out other things I have found a "GROUP 3" 6 V battery which has 900 cch ,closer to the 1100 original speck Ive heard metioned bu Ill have to enlarge the battery holder to take a big 16" long battery thats 1/2' taller