Brinn?

[ncracer1st]

I bought a brinn bellhousing and when bolting the starter on the idler gear pushes in to far and engages into the flywheel about 1/8 inch, what do I have wrong?

[Krooser]

http://www.4m.net/showthread.php?366...arter-question

[ncracer1st]

Its as all brinn. Brinn trans, brinn flywheel, brinn bellhousing and brinn idler.

[billetbirdcage]

Its as all brinn. Brinn trans, brinn flywheel, brinn bellhousing and brinn idler.

Do you have a balance plate or something between the crank and the flywheel/coupler?

Do you have a bell-housing for a mid plate and you don't have one?

Just a couple Ideas

[ncracer1st]

I have brinn crate flywheel no balance plate and have mid plate.

[ric78]

May not be your problem but this is what I ran into. I had a starter the gear would stay pushed out. You could push it in but it would come right back out. Figured this was normal, figured the idle gear would keep it in until you used it. I installed it and it would not let the idler gear stay out of the flywheel. Found the answer on here but can't remember the post. I took the head off of the starter there is a spring that pushed the gear out. Removed the spring put back together been running the starter for a year.

[ncracer1st]

Thanks I will check that.

[ncracer1st]

I figured it out, I had a cheap no name starter and the gear is to long. Works on winters bellhousing maybe burt bellhousing. Brinn website says .860from mounting surface to end of gear, my starter measures. 980.

[Krooser]

Good to know...

[brad hibbard]

thanks for the info ncracer1st
its that kind of stuff that will frustrate a guy to no end---

Brad

[ncracer1st]

I knowI spent $220 on new brinn couple and it was the same one I had.

[powerslide]

Shouldn't a crate coupler have the balance plate, or it built into the flywheel?