3SGTE Rwd Starter motor

[assassin10000]

The 4y one's I've seen are reduction starters. It's pretty easy to tell the difference on toyota starters.

Large motor & small cylindrical solenoid = direct drive (ie: crap)
Small motor & medium size (almost pentagon) angular solenoid = reduction starter


Are you going to grind / chamfer the gear teeth of your flywheel so it meshes correctly?

Andrew

[twentyEight]

Have got myself RWD reduction starter from a ST141 (2S) and the teeth are identical to the FWD ST184 (3S) starter.

[assassin10000]

I ended up with multiple clearance problems with my Y-series starter and the engine mounts. I also had problems with many others. Fortunately after searching through 300+ listings for toyota starters visually, I narrowed it down to one that will work with a 12mm spacer. Not a 10mm as I've seen here, as that's the real difference between the RWD 3s starter & ALL the others I measured.

It's from a 91-92 supra/cressida with 7m-ge/gte, also the same part in a 92-94 sc300 with 2jz-ge.

Fortunately I don't have to worry about steering column clearance, but it wouldn't be hard to rotate it with a machined spacer & some countersunk allens.

Andrew

[rokusan]

mine fits its just tight next to the engine mount.

[jonathan yee]

dunno if this helps but the early 3sge(st162) FWD had the starter on the engine side under the exhuast manifold.

[litldv8]

sv21 camry with the 3s motor has the starter on the gearbox side but if you find a 1s sv21 (1.8l) it has the starter on the block side and exhaust side (still fwd).
might be worth trying?
neil