WC starter
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Topic: WC starter
Posted By: Byron WC in SW Wi
Subject: WC starter
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2010 at 4:51pm
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The starter on my WC has had a dead spot and the switch has been marginal for as long as I can remember, (at least 20 years). We always just would crank it past the dead spot and wiggle the switch. Well I got a starter and a bunch of switches in a pile of stuff I bought a couple of years ago so I thought I'd switch the switch. The switches were all different. They looked cast instead of stamped and the holes didn't line up. Anyway, I thought I'd pull the starter then and replace it with the other WC starter I have. Well if I put the switch on the right side, (left from the tractor seat), then the starter gear faces up where the old one faces down. Can those be turned? Is this a starter for an older WC? I may just putz with the old switch some more.
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Posted By: Kip-Utah
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2010 at 10:08pm
Your replacement starter is for a WD or WD45. I adapted one like that by replacing the lump for the starter switch with a threaded stud & then used a remote mounted older Ford car type solenoid with starter button.
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Posted By: Byron WC in SW Wi
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2010 at 9:19am
Kip,
Yeah I figured that out. I took apart both starters and found the tab. Took one internal nut off the WC starter as the WD one lost it's threads. Put that in, reassembled and put the WD starter on the WC. My WC has two holes where the choke and starter pull could go through. I took off the push starter rod and just need to make a pull one to go in that other hole and I'll have a WD like starting system on my WC. I think that'll work good. After that I need a kill switch up there and I'll be good to go.
Thanks for replying.
Byron
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2010 at 9:21am
Byron, you can buy a new switch at Farm and Fleet for less than $8. If you have the old one off, take a look at the contacts. You might be able to file the contacts a bit to make it work better.
I think you could also turn the nose end of the starter by removing the 2 bolts that hold it together. Just line up the holes 180 degrees from where they were.
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Posted By: Byron WC in SW Wi
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2010 at 3:09pm
You can flip the end but you have to drill a new pilot hole. Not a biggie but I just thought it'd be easier to put it on the right side and put a pull rod on it to start it like a WD. I only remember my grandpa starting it by pushing on that thing a few times. Now I've got a newer WD starter and a 12 volt system so it spins it really fast.
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2010 at 8:07pm
I have a starter on my bench right now that was put on a 35 WC way back. It has 2 separate lock holes. I guess I'll have to take a closer look at it and compare it to my WD and 45 starters.
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Posted By: Byron WC in SW Wi
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2010 at 8:30pm
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I don't know if that starter has ever been off that tractor. It was interesting to take apart and look at. Just seeing that stuff and how it was built and wonder what they were thinking 63 years ago when they made it.
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