Powermaster 9606 starter motor nightmare

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by KevinW

... like Patrick said a while back...been trying to avoid this as its a total SoB to remove If it aint easy to fix I am tempted to just get a standard ford starter now, no messing about with meshing and shimming on the flywheel.

That standard, rebuilt Ford starter that I have in my pic above cost less than fifty bucks and is pretty much stacked up in the back of every Pep Boys, AutoZone, NAPA or O'Reilly's. I think Ford made over one trillion of them before discontinuing their use. Why don't you just pick one up on your way home from work and see if it isn't a whole lot easier than screwing around with the PM 9606. And with a socket, and about two feet of extensions, it's not that hard to get on. Plus, it's really easy to wire up -- just one wire and one terminal. Yep, even RodKnock could figure that one out.

[lovehamr]

I'm with Pat on this one. After trying a cool looking high dollar starter in my first Cobra for a while, and the problems associated with that, I did what quite a few experienced people here did and went with a rebuilt from O'Rielly's. This was cranking a 468 stroker with 10.5 to 1 compression and a fixed 35 degree advanced dist. Never had any more problems in the 5k miles after that.