I just received the nippondenso starter that I ordered from Surplus

Center.  (Surplus Center.com.)

It was originally meant for snowmobiles, weighs 7 lbs. and cost the

grand sum of $18.99.

The gear meshes perfectly with the flywheel gear and it turns the

correct direction. They have

about 350 of these left. Tracy- does this give you any ideas about

some sort of standardized

starter for your redrive? You could buy a bunch of them for that price

and include them with the

redrive( with appropriate markup, of course.)
Brian Trubee

Same weight as the starter that I have, and the price is certainly
right. What is the mounting bolt spacing and configuration?

Does anybody know if there is a version that has mounting bolt spacing
of 12.5 cm vs the 14 cm spacing used on Tracy's adapter plate.  Was
there a version of the 13B with the starter mounted just above the 9:00
o'clock (looking from the back) using the two bolts that are there on
the rear housing.

That's where I would like to put my starter, and find that, assuming the
mounting bolts are symmetrically placed on either side of the starter
gear, those two bolts give the correct gear position of the autotrans
ring gear that I have.

Al

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