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02-11-2018 10:23 AM #8
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I'd say that the PO installed the wrong flexplate on your engine. I went out to the barn, dug out the starter for my ZZ4 project and bolted it on, just to compare. No shims, no measuring, just held it up and put in the bolts. It's 22F with no heat in the barn, holding a starter that was probably more like 15F and the engine & tranny are in the '32, waiting for attention. Here's a picture, and you can see that the end of the starter gear is almost at the forward edge of the flexplate. I did measure the travel of the bendix, and it was exactly 1/2" which would yield full engagement, plus a hair, with the flexplate. And before someone jumps me, the tranny is bolted on without the converter, just for getting the engine & tranny set, and body mods done.
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