Specialist - Flywheel/Starter Motor

Hey guys,

So I'm bolting a t5 up to a zetec, i was wondering if anyone knew of a specialist in Melbourne that could help me with getting the starter motor engaging.

I have, std mondeo flywheel, cosworth bellhousing and the mondeo starter motor, which bolts up perfectly, just doesn't engage the ring gear.

I'm in inner north Melbourne, Thanks in Advance.

Measure the distance between the flange of the starter, where it meets the bell housing and the centre of the bendix drive gear, when fully actavated.
Now measure the distance between the bell housing starter mount face and the centre of the flywheel ring gear.
The second measurement tells you where the bendix gear needs to be on starter activation, the first tells you where it is.
I used a std escort starter and machined the flywheel ring gear mount stop back 13mm towards the crank.Or as Mickas says you can space the starter back, the down side is the starter has little clearence as it is, with out spacing it. This would also depend on your exhaust down pipe.

non of the escort starters will mesh with the zetec ring gear, check the measurements as above,you will most likely need to space the starter or machine the ringear distance by approx 13mm.

When you say won't mesh, do you mean pitch etc. of the teeth on the two gear are different, or just location due to bolt mounts?

With these measurements are you asking me to find difference between starter gear throw distance and distance from block face to rind gear? Or distance between centerlines of the crank and starter, cause from memory, the later was my issue.

Ill have to wait till the weekend to get measurements, engines up at our hobby farm.

thanks for the assistance so far lads.

http://classic-ford.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20240

past that to the addreaa bar and you will see a real good starter moter
Nippon Denso starter
that is the type of starter they use