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135 tooth was fine with older starter but...
I had one of those tilton sonic mach setups for the 2.3 and it lunched starters. I had a lot of good advice sent to me by the board members on this part of the site and I tried it all but I just could not make the tilton flywheel mate up correctly. I never ever spent this much time trying to make a part work.
Funny thing is i have run the 135T quartermaster flywheel for ages with all styles of starters, older pinto, ranger, etc. and never ever had a problem. I tried the sonic setup and could not get a good mesh between starter gear and flywheel.
Mind you I was using test bellhousings, starters, checking for gap between starter bendix, shimming under starter ears with washers, etc. and all that, never got it to work. Ended up just shelving the whole unit and going back to Q/M flywheel and any old 2.3 starter.
Sonic was super light but if it doesn't work what good is it? Also, the parts are discontinued, as you are probably aware, so I'd say go for something more mainstream that you can get replacement parts for.
Never got this figured out. I did notice that the tooth shape on the QM is much thinner whereas the tooth shape on the tilton is tigher between high points, if this makes sense.
I had one of those tilton sonic mach setups for the 2.3 and it lunched starters. I had a lot of good advice sent to me by the board members on this part of the site and I tried it all but I just could not make the tilton flywheel mate up correctly. I never ever spent this much time trying to make a part work.
Funny thing is i have run the 135T quartermaster flywheel for ages with all styles of starters, older pinto, ranger, etc. and never ever had a problem. I tried the sonic setup and could not get a good mesh between starter gear and flywheel.
Mind you I was using test bellhousings, starters, checking for gap between starter bendix, shimming under starter ears with washers, etc. and all that, never got it to work. Ended up just shelving the whole unit and going back to Q/M flywheel and any old 2.3 starter.
Sonic was super light but if it doesn't work what good is it? Also, the parts are discontinued, as you are probably aware, so I'd say go for something more mainstream that you can get replacement parts for.
Never got this figured out. I did notice that the tooth shape on the QM is much thinner whereas the tooth shape on the tilton is tigher between high points, if this makes sense.
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