Quick question!

I don't know if this has been mentioned before on this site, if it has I never came across it, but I found a different way to take off the stock starter WITHOUT even touching the Hedman headers on my '71 Demon.

Being that I had to lift my engine to remove the headers I had to figure something out. What I did was remove the driver's side inner tie rod from the centerlink. After moving it out of the way, the starter ALMOST came out through the hole between the number 7 cylinder pipe and the rest of them. It hit the centerlink and the power steering gearbox by an eyelash. So I also removed the centerlink and voila! (I don't mean completely remove, just unattach them from the pitman arm and swing them out of the way.) Moved the driver side tie rods out of the way, moved the pitman arm out the way and moved the centerlink out of the way and the start came out between the header pipes by the steering gearbox. I had to angle it pointing downwards towards the front left tire and rotate it on the way out to make room for the solenoid but it came out quite easily in that space. Poppes in the new starter through that smae space and replaced the steering assembly.

I finished it pretty darned fast once I figured how how to do it. Once it was out it took be about fifteen minutes to put the new one in, rewire, and button up the steering. If I had to do it again, it'd take about 40 minutes tops.

Hope this helps some of you. I'll get some pics of the space where the starter cam out when I get back to Houston on Sunday.


-Alex