So one day ,my moermeter waaaay into the red, I got my spanners out and I removed said starter antichrist kak starter bloody thing from my engine, and tossed it faaaaar away..... well, not really too far away, it was too heavy. Right you bastard, if you do not do what the name implies, IE START the damn engine, you are NOT going along for the ride...... Did I mention that this starter thing was rather big and weighed about 1/2 ton?
Anyway, for a while I got to be even better at propping my trusty 0320 to life. But then one gets a bit gatvol to be constantly prop swinging. It is kinda dangerous if done wrong. So out comes the thinking cap. Look now, there are a LOT of lighter and better starter motors on the market today. Somehow one MUST fit. When the "new shape Hilux" came on the market late in 1984, with the 1Y 1600cc engine, it had the prettiest little geared Nipondenso starter motor. Everything in it runs on bearings. Checked what direction it swings, mmmmm, direction is right. tested the little drive gear on the Lycon`s ringear...lo and behold. That also fit 100%. So I made an "L" shaped bracket for the starter motor, that just bolts onto the engine block, lined everything up perfectly, and NEVER had to swing the prop since. Where there is a will, there is a way.
