I had been having some fuel problems and having to start and restart my truck several times just to move it a truck length. Sunday i was trying to move it out of the middle of the driveway and it started beautifully for me (besides the fuel problem) many times probably 30 good long cranks. Point being it showed no signs of problems it just crapped out on me. all i would get was a single click from the solenoid. so i rolled it in to the garage and started testing. solenoid tested fine. but i grabbed one off of my parts shelf and tried it anyway. Same thing..no crank. Checked the cables for resitance and voltage drop under load. either way it still didn't fix it. so i pulled off the started and bench tested it. but even with a bench test i couldn't get it to turn over or make any noises..so i got out my hammer and knocked it around a little. Most of us know that sometimes that works...it didn't. I've got an extra starter sitting on the shelf but can't remember what it came from. The only numbers i found on it where E1??-11131-BA...i could read the letters marked with a ? but i left the paper in the garage. From my ford casting numbers section in my book i know that 11131 is the basic part number. Is there another number on the starter that will tell me the application or a real way to identify it?

 

You'll need to get access to '80s era parts book. You can cross the engineering number, thats the number you posted, over to the actual part number. Then you can look up what that part number fits.

 

how the heck would i go about getting that parts book you're talking about? What's the breakdown on the numbers i got...i know it 81 vehicle type then engineering division- the next is the basic part number (is this the number you are talking about crossing)? the last two are the revision numbers.

 

You can find them on ebay but thats a big expense just to look up a single part. A GOOD parts store (NAPA) or an auto electric shop should be able to cross reference the starter too.