Inliners International Forums General Discussion Engines 261 starter issue

I'm pretty much in the same boat (261 in a 41 sedan) and my flywheel shows really bad wear at those 3 positions where the motor usually stops because of this. I try to stomp on the starter really fast and sometimes that helps, but sometimes I have to get out and turn the motor by hand a bit.

I don't have a solution yet, since I have some other stuff to fix first, but the problem seems to be, that the starter starts spinning to early. So my thinking is, to modify the linkage in a way, that it starts spinning later (i.e. the part that hits the button).

Frank