any differences b/w f150 starter and stang starter??

[Foxfan88]

ok my starter took a crap the other day.

I was going to buy a reman. from the store but i talked to a friend and he has one from his 5.0 truck. Reason its sitting is b/c he replaced the motor and just used that starter and left his old on off.

anyway. I get the old one off. was all loose, it wiggled and was sloppy.
Compared it to the the truck starter and the truck one was bigger.
The end of it where the teeth and where the dome is are exactly the same, but the rest of the starter was big.

There was enough room and it fit so i am using it now.
Works great and starts the car much faster than before. Think the bigger truck starter is a heavier duty and better one than the stang one??
or maybe my stang one was just worn out.

P.S. Top starter bolt = a bitch.

 

[Darkwriter77]

I may be wrong on this, but I believe it's the same design of starter that most of the Ford Windsor-blocked motors went to around '90. My '89 still has the starter with the remote solenoid, but my buddy's '90 notch has it on the starter, itself (and thus many headaches when combined with his long-tube headers), and my '90 Town Car has the same exact starter (as the '90 notch), as well.

As I've heard it, the newer starters were a higher-torque design, thus the easier starting you're experiencing. I probably should've upgraded to the newer design, myself, and just did away with my old fender solenoid style starter when I last replaced mine, but I was considering long tubes at the time and didn't want to risk the same heat-related no-start condition headaches my buddy was having.

FWIW, the top starter bolt was never a problem for me ... but I had the whole exhaust ripped off at the time, though, which gave me lots of room to put on a big ol' honkin' 3/8" drive extension to get a straight shot at it.

 

[Euphoric306]

i believe you reach in through the k-member, there should be a hole there in whatever metal thing is there (its late gimme a break) and you can get to teh top starter bolt.


so just to clarify, if you have the remote solenoid on the fenderwell, will LT's still cause non-start problems by overheating the starter motor? or is it just the solenoid that stops working from the heat?