62 - 409 starter question

**RPOLS3** · #1 07-17-2023, 01:30 PM

I posted this over at the 348/409 site but looking for help here as well.....

I purchased a restored dated starter for our 62 409. It appears that the incorrect starter currently in the car bolts in with 3 vertical bolts from the bottom of the starter into the block - the correct restored starter bolts with 3 horizontal bolts into the bellhousing. Do I now just need the correct hardware for the bellhousing mounts or anything else?

Don't mind the custom road draft tube bracket....

Thanks in advance.

**Too Many Projects** · #2 07-17-2023, 01:39 PM

I don't see where your current bellhousing will accommodate 3 fasteners, only 2. Didn't the '62 have a cast bell ? I can look at the one I have here and see if it has 3 mounting holes.

**McCune** · #3 07-17-2023, 01:39 PM

The new flange style starter is for a Manual Transmission.

**John Brown** · #4 07-17-2023, 03:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Too Many Projects

I don't see where your current bellhousing will accommodate 3 fasteners, only 2. Didn't the '62 have a cast bell ? I can look at the one I have here and see if it has 3 mounting holes.

This shows the three bolt holes.

**Too Many Projects** · #5 07-17-2023, 04:52 PM

Ah, the bottom hole is in the casting but couldn't see it from the back.

**RPOLS3** · #6 07-17-2023, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by McCune

The new flange style starter is for a Manual Transmission.

Is the one in the car now for an automatic then?

**John Brown** · #7 07-17-2023, 08:32 PM

I know for a fact that the bolt to the block style starters were used when a Turboglide was installed, as far back as 1957.

**McCune** · #8 07-17-2023, 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RPOLS3

Is the one in the car now for an automatic then?

Yes, according to my part book.

**John Brown** · #9 07-17-2023, 11:50 PM

If you want the starter to be more correct looking, originals had a pin going through the fork that was held in by a snap ring, not a bolt and nut affair.

**RPOLS3** · #10 07-18-2023, 12:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Brown

If you want the starter to be more correct looking, originals had a pin going through the fork that was held in by a snap ring, not a bolt and nut affair.

Thanks - do you have a picture of what that looks like?

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