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Paul,
I had an insane number of shims after I rebuilt my engine and decided to put
a new (rebuilt )starter on. Both starters looked identical, but the rebuilt
one needed a zillion shims. I finally decided "this can't be right" and
went back to the store and asked to see another one - once again it looked
the same, but then we got out the calipers...sure enough the measurements
were different, and even though the difference was small it made a world of
difference in the geometry of the fit against the block/flexplate. Swapped
out the starter - and I was back to zero shims. Seems like I always run
into weird stuff like this - like last week when my wife's BMW sucked a
bunch of water into the engine because BMW built a box around the power
brake booster with a tiny drain hole...that got clogged with leaves...and
then it rained...and the box filled up and imersed the booster in 8 inches
of water....and the booster itself filled with water...and the vacuum line
sucked water into the engine...aaggghh! But I digress...
Later,
Chris Blandino
67 Sprint Convertible - 455
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Zarychta" <[email protected]>
To: "First Generation Firebird-L" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [FGF] Starter Shims
First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List
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Yes, I had to use a large number of shims on the starter when I went from
an
Auto to a Manual. It was rather insane the number of shims that i used. I
personally think that get thing the started shimmed correctly was the
hardest part of the whole swap!
Paul Z.
68 350 Coupe
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