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Post by faberferrum on Aug 10, 2011 0:56:14 GMT
Just wondering if the MGB's used the same starter motor as the landcrabs. Parts for the MGB's are plentiful here in Canada, while 1800 specific bits are more or less non-existant. Mine is a 1967 Austin 1800, btw.
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Post by dave1800 on Aug 10, 2011 2:47:27 GMT
In the UK the MGB used the same starter (M418G) as the 1800 with a change to the pre-engaged type around 1968-9. In the UK a 1967 car would originally have had a non pre-engaged type. I am not sure if the pre-engaged and non pre-engaged starters are interchangeable mechanically - they would certainly require a little fairly simple electrical reconfiguration. I believe that in the US (and therefore possibly Canada) that there was also a pre-engaged starter type 2M100 - I don't know anything about this starter, but I think it was introduced around 1973. You will need to compare the starters but I think you may well be lucky. Hopefully someone here has already done this and can advise further. Regards David Just wondering if the MGB's used the same starter motor as the landcrabs. Parts for the MGB's are plentiful here in Canada, while 1800 specific bits are more or less non-existant. Mine is a 1967 Austin 1800, btw.
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Post by faberferrum on Aug 10, 2011 23:32:27 GMT
I have had mine off, an it's a Bendix type starter, so it looks like if I find a bendix starter for a 1967 or earlier MGB, I should be good. Thanks
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Post by Penguin45 on Aug 14, 2011 23:03:08 GMT
I have a '67 car with a MkIII engine in it - using the early (Bendix) starter motor. Logically, the two should interchange. That's the one I took off a couple of months back, the replacement is identical. You need the solenoid on the left hand engine bracket with one of these - the later type has its own solenoid. Chris.
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Post by faberferrum on Sept 5, 2011 1:09:29 GMT
Update on my starter problems. I took the Bendix bit all apart, and found a bit broken off the end of the male threaded piece. It broke across a groove where a retaining clip is supposed to sit, so the whole shebang was now free to slide along the shaft, running into the flywheel and jamming solid.
So I borrowed a scroll chuck and stuck the bit on my wood lathe, then ground a new groove with an angle grinder and cutting disk.
Put it all back to together, and she turns over easily. Haven't tried starting it yet, since there's bound to be tons of crud in the fuel tank, and the clutch cylinders are seized solid.
Anyways, headed off tomorrow morning to pick up a '86 BMW 325e. It came into the local pick a part, and I couldn't let it get scrapped. Only 160,000 k on it! But if I quit buying cars, maybe I'd have the money to fix the ones I've got!
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