New starter - new mod?

[Tony Whitley]

Having stripped my old () starter down at least 10 times over the last year I finally gave in an ordered a new one. It arrived today, a Magneton the same as the old one, and it has a piece of heat shield material clipped to the solenoid, much like the idea of attaching a brazing mat I saw here recently.

 

Exciting pictures here

 

M1 7 SMW 1.4-now-1.8K Mem.No. 10376

 

 

Edited by - Tony_Whitley on 22 Jun 2004 21:28:31

[Tony Martyr]

It is both clipped on and stuck on as I found out when stripping mine.

I have now settled on the combination of:

Insulated exhaust headers on 3 & 4

insulated cable run to soleniod

no extra heat insulation on the starter other than the patch mentioned.

This way I hope the cooling flow gets to the soleniod but the radiant heat from the headers is kept away

I have carried out the extra start relay modification and currently all is well - I might even have the confidence to dispense with pushing passenger.

[Mick Day]

Hi Tony

 

How's the cylinder head after the little problem you had?

 

Mick

 

PS.

Sorry to hi-jack the thread

[I.Mupferit]

And just to complete the hijack, did you manage to sort out the idling problem you were experiencing 🤔

 

Brent

 

 

Zetec 209

Reassuringly Expensive

 

[Tony Whitley]

Cylinder head: I managed to clean up the spark plug thread by screwing in four old plugs. All being well I should have another (ported) head this weekend, then all I have to do is find the courage to strip the engine down again.

 

Idling: fitting a throttle pot with three connections improved things no end 😬 The car went to LM and back without a hitch*, unlike a depressing number of others

 

M1 7 SMW 1.4-now-1.8K Mem.No. 10376

 

*Well, as long as you don't count a starter that was taking more and more attempts before spinning up and turning the engine over.

 

Edited by - Tony_Whitley on 23 Jun 2004 19:46:20