Does anyone have experience of fitting a Hi-torque starter to a Peerless? I'd like to put one in but given it's a bit tighter in a Peerless than a TR3, I thought I'd ask before dropping the money.
whilst rebuilding my engine I came across a NOS TR4 starter, in its box (for £50!) so that kind of sent me down that route (91 toothed flywheel ring not 90) and its been great for 15+ years.
fires after about 1/2 a stroke usually. from cold its about two revolutions so no real drain on power
Probably a silly question but is the solenoid in good condition? You can get quite a volt drop across burnt/pitted contacts and the beefier the cables the better too.
Sorry if that was an exercise in how to suck an egg.
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-- Edited by Jon Nolan on Saturday 11th of October 2014 06:51:07 PM
-- Edited by Jon Nolan on Saturday 11th of October 2014 06:53:13 PM
We got one from TR Enterprises when we rebuilt the car several years ago and haven't looked back. Has proved to be efficient and reliable from instillation.
Well, it took me a long time to getting around to fitting the new starter, but it's excellent. I took the time to rebuild some of the hacked-up wiring from when the car was fitted with the kill-switch etc, and have left the old solenoid in place just in case.... As a result it's not clear how much improvement is from the starter and how much is from by-passing the old wiring as per Jon's post. Either way the start-up from cold is like night vs day.
