7K Starter Motor Help.

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Hey guys,

 

I am currently in the throws of putting a 7k into my KE55. i bought the 7KEFI from the wreckers its came out of a townace that had only done 100,000kms lol!

 

Anyways...

 

I bolted the the old 5k engines flywheel and used the clutch to marry up with the K50 box i am using and everything bolted up fine. The issue now is I'm trying to put the starter motor from the 5k on and it seems to hit the side of the block?

 

Does the 7k starter motor have to be used? Also i didnt change the "Engine/Gearbox" squash plate from the 7k to 5k.. would that be it? they didnt look any different.

 

Cheers

Grant.

[Clapped out]

7k starter motor's seem to be smaller in physical size, so yeah, you'll have to get a high torque starter of the sort to over come your clearance issue,

 

cheers!

[filfrederick]

ashdown ingrams do a 1.2kw k-motor starter from memory that is quite small, the other option is a v8 landcruiser starter and machine up a adapter plate like so;