If you put www.y-blocksforever.com in the address bar, it should bring up the real home page with the links.

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

I guess I'm a dummy, but I can 't find the link to AES, can you help me out?

Gerald Ingram aka "Gritsngumbo"
Monroe, LA
LITTLE RED: 64 Ford F100 Short Bed Styleside
BIG RED: 63 Ford F100 Long Bed Unibody
BBW RED: 61 Ford F100 BBW Long Bed Custom Cab Unibody
BIG “UN: 63 F250 Longbed Flareside
CREW CAB: 63 F100 "Stageway" Crew Cab w/Long "Wrong" Bed

I really don't like the heavy and large original starter. I dropped one taking it out mashing a finger and put a small dent in my forehead. The advantages of the Ministarter for me are the light weight, small size for installation/removal and clearance problems, and reliability (no dead starter at a busy gas station after filling up in a high attention getting car). Also, the push style drive engagement offers a remedy for a ring gear that has worn teeth from the original starter. The pull engagement original starter can damage the teeth on the ring gear from the back side. Installing a push style engagement starter takes advantage of the undamaged side of the ring gear teeth. Sure beats removing the trans or motor to replace a ring gear.



Mark

57 Black Tbird 312/auto

Just to add the the Automotive Electric starter comment; I spoke with yesterday about availability & installation. Currently sold out, but Jack said by middle next week their missing components would arrive & they would again have availability soon after.

Said it's a two bolt design vs. original three & the lighter weight made that possible & it's a bolt in unit. Said the hard part is getting the old one out.

Brian - 56 T-Bird

Woodinville WA

Oh Ok, missed that .

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

The deal is, I have a spare almost new PowerMaster Mini High Torque starter for an FE. If I can replace the starter pinon/gear to match my 312 for 20 or so bucks that would be a better way to go. If not, I will most likely get a starter from Automotive Electric Service. At $179 it a reasonable price.



Mark

57 Black Tbird 312/auto

Automotive Electric Service with a link on this site sells mini starters to fit Y-blocks.  Nothing to do but pay, receive, and install.

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

Paul,



Thanks for catching that. I proof read it a couple times but missed the error. I have edited it to say "later". I have mini starters on my 65 Galaxie and 66 F100 FE's.

57 Black Tbird 312/auto

Mark: the 2nd line of your paragraph I think contains an error. Where you say ..."than the earlier FE cars and trucks." I think should be "later" cars & trucks. You might want to check with our moderator Ted, he is familiar with the FE starter nuances.

Paul

After some emails with Robb at RobbMC Performance, it was decided that the FE style mini starter would bolt to a Y block. The difference is the starter drive gear. He has dealt with this on the pre 65 FE motors that have a different ring gear/flex plate tooth count than the later FE cars and trucks. One solution has been to change the ring gear but a little drastic in the labor effort just to get a starter mounted. One question, was the starter drive gear carried over from the Flatheads to the Y block? There are Mini High Torque Flathead starters on the market. If so, would it be possible to modify/swap that gear with the FE starter unit? I have a FE PowerMaster Mini starter under my bench and a Y block starter drive. The FE uses 11 teeth and the Y block has 9. The shaft size looks to be very close in diameter. I did find a 9 tooth starter pinion gear kit for the Hitachi but not the Denso one yet.




57 Black Tbird 312/auto