starter bracket/ broken bolt m1008

[cucvdailydriver]

In the past I have had a broken starter mounting bolt. It caused the starter to damage the flywheel. It is repared now, but I recently noticed that there is no starter support bracket . I have read (somewhere) that a bracket should prevent this. My question is where do I get one, is it a original part missing, or broken off? I do not see any brackets /holes on my starter to atach the thing. I dont want to go through another flywheel replacement.

 

[acetomatoco]

The bracket attaches to the stud with the exposed threads on the end of the starter and to a hole in the engine block with a nice curved angle iron bracket as illustrated in your 20P and your 20.

 

[cucvdailydriver]

Ok thanks . I need to get under there and see whats up. I just recently downloaded the manuals for this truck. I have not looked at them yet, is it a over the counter part? I hope so since I am not good at fab.

 

[cucvdailydriver]

Is it a oem bracke that is missing, or uniqe to cucv?

 

[Hoot_223]

OEM to all 6.2 diesel trucks and blazers, but i had a 1984 suburban that kept breaking them even with the bracket so i drilled and tapped it to 7/16 NF bolt and my problems stopped

 

[CCATLETT1984]

a gm dealer might be able to get this part for you still, but your better to get one from a junk yard.

 

[cucvdailydriver]

I am going to look. There are no junk yards around here that I know of. Does anyone else know of one close to north ga/ dahlonega Ga?

 

[mangus580]

Re: RE: starter bracket/ broken bolt m1008

OEM to all 6.2 diesel trucks and blazers,

OEM on alot of SBC's too

 

[Mike_Pop]

RE: Re: RE: starter bracket/ broken bolt m1008

I found two brackets on eBay, two separate auctions.

 

[Refalgren]

contact Boyce Equipment (www.boyceequipment.com). they definately have them in stock. plus its likely that they will just send you one.

 

[spicergear]

You can make one pretty easily. I did this for my BBC starter in my M715.

That broken bolt-- You didn't happen to give that a 'sniff' of ether, did you? That's a pretty common side effect of too much ether.

 

[CUCVFAN]

The dealer has plenty of them for usually under $5...

 

[CCATLETT1984]

You can make one pretty easily. I did this for my BBC starter in my M715.

That broken bolt-- You didn't happen to give that a 'sniff' of ether, did you? That's a pretty common side effect of too much ether.

I have never seen a broken starter bolt due to ether, now i have seen some other horrible things happen, but the starter kicks the gear back as the engine over speeds it, thats why the grears are shaped the way they are.

 

[Jake0147]

This is just what it does on the Post Office vans I work on. (Virtually the same engine). Mail carriers and ether are a bad mix. Even worse if a couple of the glow plugs are still actually working. They break starter bolts, starter bracket bolts, starter braclets, bendix drives, flywheel teeth, starter teeth, etc. (and of course a multitude of other issues not related to the post). I can't prove it, but I suspect that the flywheel accelerates too quickly and "hammers" the back side of the starter gear before the spring has a chance to retract the bendix drive. Not a lot of "slope" to the helix inside there, so when the flywheel hits it suddenly it pushes it back but I believe htere's also a lot of force transferred before the retraction is complete.

 

[cucvdailydriver]

There was no ether involved, was starting good and running good prior to broken bolt