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Installed a new mini starter from Mancini onto my 440.
I ground away the necessary material to make it fit.
Hit the ignition and the starter spins but the Bendix drive is not engaging the starter ring.

What am I not doing correctly? Out of a gazillion starters this is my first mini. Thanks.


And while we're on the subject, anybody have a pic of where they had to grind away material?

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Do you have a 130 tooth flywheel in a 143 tooth bell???
The way a Denso style starter operates is when the coil surrounding the plunger is energized it pulls the contact ring to the contacts while pushing the drive forward.So if the motor is spinning then the drive is extended.In the hundreds of Denso starters I have worked on in the 28 years of import car world I have yet to see a starter engage and run without the drive extending to contact the ring gear

Gus