SR Starter (KA swap)

[Clawhammer]

My starter is bad. I found the thread from a year ago on the subject:

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But I'm wondering what definitive answers we've come up with since then? A lot can happen in a years time.

I know KA single and twin cam starters are the same, I took one off the 95 I had in my backyard and put it on my piggy back before the SR swap. It seems to be that you need the hitachi starter from the KA, and people are confusing the two different brands with the two different motors.

Anyway, what's up?

[sbird1]

I had in my backyard and put it on my piggy back before the SR swap.

Haha, you said "piggy back". I have no answer to your query.

[Clawhammer]

Anyone?

[DBo]

im usin a ka starter on my sr just switch out the housing and the gear and youshould be fine. i jsut went and grabbed one from autozone since i work their been workin great havent had trouble wit it

[Clawhammer]

Which starter did you get? I just swap the head of the starters right? Which gear are you talking about?

[Clawhammer]

This thread fails!

[Clawhammer]

I went to autozone and got a duralast starter. It did not distinguish hitachi v. mitsubishi so I decided to roll the dice. Turns out it was the right one, took maybe 5 minutes to swap the heads. Watch out for the KA head, it's not all one piece like the SR. I pulled it off and it fell to pieces haha. Works like a charm! And now I can use the plug for the starter again.

Think I should rub some dirt and oil on the KA starter head so when I bring it back for the core charge the head isn't pristine while the body and solenoid are black? Haha.

[sbird1]

Glad you got it figured out. This will undoubtedly help me out in the future.

[ryan15]

haha good info, kick some dirt on it forsure!

[blinker_fluid]

Was your starter causing the short?

[Clawhammer]

Don't think so, pretty sure it's my coilpack harness...but who knows. New harness comes tomorrow \o/

[kooboi]

woot there goes my starter problem!

[Emperor_Tha]

so any 89-98 ka starter well do? Just making sure

[Clawhammer]

Possibly, the only way we'll find out is trial and error. I got lucky that I didn't get a mitsubishi starter, so I'm not sure. If you buy a mitsu and it doesn't work, take it back. It's only 2 bolts to find out if it works, and isn't rocket science to put it back together so don't be intimidated. If you take the heads off and they look the same, then you're good to go.

I don't know if the mitsu's are different, but my two starters had a big ring with gear teeth on the inside and then 3 little gears that sat in the middle of that (in the teeth of the big outer gear) and the head had 3 nubs that went into each of those 3 gears.

[WOLFANATOR13]

well i believe my sr starter is dead, and have a left over, ka24e starter mistubitchy, and it doesnt look as though it will bolt together, the output spline inside are a bit different.