<< Too bad you can't keep the floor starter; I still don't understand why not. Is it because the V8 starter uses a cylinoid and the 6 doesn't? I have a hole in the floor board I need to plug one of t
So what did trucks that came from the factory with V8's have so start them? Not a floor starter? << Too bad you can't keep the floor starter; I still don't understand why not. Is it because the V8 st
Author: "Hanlon, Bill (ISS Houston)" <Bill.Hanlon@hp.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 18:30:59 -0600
As far as I know for TFs all V-8's and all 6 cylinders with Hydra-Matics had solenoid starters. Only 6 cylinders with standard transmissions had floor starters. I'd bet that large trucks with 6cyl/st
a friend of mine did the same thing but wanted it to look stock so he made a switch up out of the old floor push button to roll the engine like the key would looked great worked great he also made it
According to the 57 factory service manual, 6's with standard transmissions got floor push button starters. Everything else got one of two styles of solenoid starters. The solenoid starters got an of
Whether you can use the floor starter or not depends on how much of purist you want to be. Although you cannot retain the floor starter as it was back in the day, there should be no reason why you ca
Having the live starter can be handy. Once or twice nudging it while in gear helped walk my old man's truck out of some really bad mud when these were newtrucks. With the starter only, there wasn't e