Shim starter?????
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Mountain Pass
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From: Ponca City, OK
Shim starter?????
My starter went out today. Not convenient but no big deal. Headed to O'Reilly's and picked up a lifetime starter and starter solenoid. Came home yanked the old parts off and slapped the new parts on and fired it up. Heard a weird noise after it fired up. I immediately shut the engine down and pulled the new starter off to have a look/see. Ring gear looked good. Starter looked good. I started scratching my head a little cause I couldn't see anything obvious. I laid the old new starter next to the new one and kinda gave them the once over. Nothing jumped out out me so I got to looking a little closer and noticed the starter gear was protruding out further on the new starter. Back to O'Reilly's I go. I got there and showed the counter guy what was up. He told me looks like I need to "SHIM" my starter. I told him I wasn't working on a ******N' Chevy it's a Ford starter!! He told me they have Ford starter shims. I proceeded to tell him they don't make shims for Ford's, Ford starters don't require shims. I asked if he could just swap out the new starter for another. He said sure. He pulled 3 other starters off the shelf and every one had the gear protruding out too far! Long story short, I bought a "SHIM". WTH????? When did we have to start shimming ford starters????
Cargo Master
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: South west Idaho
There may be others but i only know of one ford engine family that uses two different two bolt starters and that is the small block ,302 ect. The auto transmission starter has a nose that is about 1/4"to 3/8 "longer than the one for a standard transmission. I have about two or three each of them.They can be shimmed but don't need to be if they are for the correct set up. I shimmed an auto trany one out once to use with a standard only because it was a new starter and i never wanted to be out the cost of another one for the standard set up .
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