Topic: Starter Detailing, Original Band Gasket Cardboard Material

[Bob Gaines]

C7-B stamp is for 289 auto and C7-D is for 289 4 speed.

[Bossbill]

I'm assembling my starter right now and I'm using a wrecking yard C3 nose, newer barrel, old plunger cover, non-pop riveted brush holder and old band.
My starter should be, at latest, an early January 1967 date so I feel a stamp would be  proper.
I could not find a barrel that didn't have a D2 or later number so I took the best one (electrically speaking), and sanded the area where the numbers were and used body filler to fill in the engineering numbers.
However, this left the barrel shiny in that area.
The fix was to apply a few coats of black paint, wrap the area in 100 grit paper and lightly tap on the paper with a flat body hammer.
Blow off the "crumbs", apply a light misting of paint and the area now looks like the rest of starter.

[Bossbill]

Removing phillips field coil screws and replacing them with square drive field coil screws can be tedious.
There is a special arbor Ford uses to keep downward pressure on coil screws while turning the screws. I used an impact driver with a very large phillips head socket to take out the phillips coil screws, but had to take an old beat up 3/8 extension and mill down the sides to take out the square drive out of an original barrel.

Even though the milled square drive took out the screws, it left raised edges that wouldn't be present on a new starter.

Off to the lathe to shave the head smooth and keep the circular rings built into the screws.
Results!

[J_Speegle]

Just a note for those that found this thread using the search. There are a number of other threads that focus on specific year or a small number of year details that may provide more focused details