400 SB + 153 tooth flywheel + starter...
Kevin L. Brown
straight bolt pattern but the block wants an offset bolt pattern. The only
nose cones I've found for an offset pattern are for the large (168 tooth)
flywheel.
Is there or was there ever a 153 tooth starter with an offset bolt pattern?
Either by GM or any aftermarket?
And yes, when I got the car, the starter was held in by the one bolt plus
the bracket in the front. And yes, that's why I need to fix it, it moved
and stripped the starter drive.
Bill
starters out to look at. Their computers don't tell them which are which.
A lot of them have a universal design with 4 holes on them. Hopefully you
will get lucky and find one.
--
Bill
"What I lack, my car more than makes up for!"
1978 Chevrolet Z28
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Kevin L. Brown wrote in message ...
Philip Harmon
> I have a 400 SB with a small (153 tooth) flywheel. The starter is the
> straight bolt pattern but the block wants an offset bolt pattern. The only
> nose cones I've found for an offset pattern are for the large (168 tooth)
> flywheel.
I just put a 400 in my car, I went to Autozone and got a starter for a 74
el camino. It is the diagonal bolt pattern. By the way, is that small
flywheel externally balanced, like a 400 requires? Im not really sure,
but I think that my flywheel was 168, and I know that it was the one that
went with the motor, which I knew came out of a 74 El Camino.
Hope that helped some,
philip harmon
Kevin L. Brown
straight bolt pattern. That's great for putting either a 153 or 168 tooth
flywheel on a block with a straight bolt pattern.
But my block has an offset bolt pattern. I have yet to see a starter that
works with both flywheels and offset bolt patterns.
I've been hitting the "Auto Electric" stores around and they all say the
153/offset combination doesn't exist. But I find it really hard to believe
given how many offset pattern blocks there are. But I've been wrong before.
Bill wrote in message <7d6tif$6bl$1...@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
>If you go to an Auto parts store, just ask the guy to bring a bunch of the
>starters out to look at. Their computers don't tell them which are which.
>A lot of them have a universal design with 4 holes on them. Hopefully you
>will get lucky and find one.
>
>--
> Bill
>"What I lack, my car more than makes up for!"
> 1978 Chevrolet Z28
> http://home.sprintmail.com/~wsiegler/
>Kevin L. Brown wrote in message ...
>>I have a 400 SB with a small (153 tooth) flywheel. The starter is the
>>straight bolt pattern but the block wants an offset bolt pattern. The
only
>>nose cones I've found for an offset pattern are for the large (168 tooth)
>>flywheel.
>>
IRONDOG
>I have a 400 SB with a small (153 tooth) flywheel
I don't believe any 400 SBC ever came with a 153 wheel or flexplate from
the factory, and there were never any offset pattern starters for the 153
wheels either, on any Chevy. However, it IS possible to rebalance a wheel
to 400 specs, but more than likely the wrong wheel is installed in the
vehicle.
jht55...@mindspring.com
flywheel.They do make an externally balanced lightweight 454 flywheel but
the out of balance is not the same.
They make weight flanges that go between the crank flange and the flexplate
that you can use with an internally balanced flexplate on a 400 small block.
Good Luck.
JHT
Cliff
weighted. (my first big block - learninjg. :)
Turns out the a good machine shop can drill the back of the flywheel
on the ooposite side of where weight would have been, and it will work
fine. Cost: $35.
Cliff
69 Camaro project (454, M20, 3.73 posi, Vintage Air.
56 Bel Air Sport Coupe.
69 53,000 mile Camaro Survivor - 350/auto, a/c houndstooth, etc. (for
sale)
95 Z-28 6spd convert.
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:41:32 -0800, <jht55...@mindspring.com>
wrote:
frenchy
Hays makes an externally balanced 153 tooth 400 flexplate. Just contact one
of the companies that sell Hays products. I believe Jegs and Summit both
sell them.
--
Chris
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