440 Starter

davidsmith · Post by **davidsmith** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:35 pm

Had to remove my port starter for repair, what a pain in the a####. Bottom bolt below engine stringer. Ended up removing exhaust manifold to gain access to starter. Finally got it out for repair and dreading trying to reinstall bottom bolt.

Big D · Post by **Big D** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:28 pm

Been there done that. To get to mine, I have to wrap myself around the front of the engine. With the bolt barely hanging in between two fingers, I could get it in the hole but couldn't get the starter to sit in the right place for the bolt to catch a thread. I tried for 3 hours! Finally got someone to help. They got behind the starter and held it in place while I bolted it in from the front. Took 5 minutes!!