"Take your flathead starter apart. Keep the long through-bolts and end plate with the armature and bendix. Turn the armature if required. Don't under-cut the copper bars on armature. Use the starterfrom 332, 352, 360, 390 or 406 c.i. Ford FE engines as the conversion starter. Disassemble the FEstarter. Keep the end plate with brushes and case with field coils. Check the bushing in the end plate and replace if necessary. The wire size and number of windings on the FE and flathead armatures and they are the same.
Now is also a good time to install new brushes. Install the flathead armature into the FE case. Install the FE end plate with brushes. Put long through-bolts in starter.
You now have a flathead starter capable of cranking an engine of 300 to 400 c.i. ,up to11 to 1 compression ratio. The finished starter looks like the flathead starter and you did it yourself."
This works. I have done this for two 12 volt starter conversions. On the last one I got a rebuiltstarter from O'Rileys to use the case. It was for a 1964 Ford Galaxie; 390 cu in. engine. The part # is 03-0214 and the line is ULT. Cost was $39.99 plus 20 bucks for the core. So, for 60 bucks, you can have a 12 volt starter that works great.
Ultima® - StarterPart # 03-0214
Following (with "thanks") the instructions of Fordbarner Ed Pitts first buy a new starter for a 1964 Ford Galaxie 390 V8 (like the one shown in the first photo) and then do the following:
1. Remove long bolts.
2. Slide out armature.
3. Remove long bolts from your 6V starter and slide out armature/Bendix.
4. Remove inspection band from new 12V starter and pry of end plate.
5. Clean out commutator slots (not armature) with needle knife file.
5. Slide old 6V armature into new 12V case. ( I lost count of fives.)
6. Install each brush onto commutator using home made "hook tool" or wire ties.
7. Align end plate on case and secure gently with vise grips. Install nuts on
long bolts to hold it all together.
8. Make and install clamping strip to hold front end plate to case. Be careful not to drill holes thru case and into field coils. Use the path of the long bolt as a guide as there are no field coils where the bolts pass thru.
9. Make and install new data plate telling what parts were used to make starter.
10. Install inspection band and test starter.
I hope this helps folks who want to "convert". Total cost was $50 for the new starter from Ebay.
Now is also a good time to install new brushes. Install the flathead armature into the FE case. Install the FE end plate with brushes. Put long through-bolts in starter.
You now have a flathead starter capable of cranking an engine of 300 to 400 c.i. ,up to11 to 1 compression ratio. The finished starter looks like the flathead starter and you did it yourself."
This works. I have done this for two 12 volt starter conversions. On the last one I got a rebuiltstarter from O'Rileys to use the case. It was for a 1964 Ford Galaxie; 390 cu in. engine. The part # is 03-0214 and the line is ULT. Cost was $39.99 plus 20 bucks for the core. So, for 60 bucks, you can have a 12 volt starter that works great.
Ultima® - StarterPart # 03-0214
Following (with "thanks") the instructions of Fordbarner Ed Pitts first buy a new starter for a 1964 Ford Galaxie 390 V8 (like the one shown in the first photo) and then do the following:
1. Remove long bolts.
2. Slide out armature.
3. Remove long bolts from your 6V starter and slide out armature/Bendix.
4. Remove inspection band from new 12V starter and pry of end plate.
5. Clean out commutator slots (not armature) with needle knife file.
5. Slide old 6V armature into new 12V case. ( I lost count of fives.)
6. Install each brush onto commutator using home made "hook tool" or wire ties.
7. Align end plate on case and secure gently with vise grips. Install nuts on
long bolts to hold it all together.
8. Make and install clamping strip to hold front end plate to case. Be careful not to drill holes thru case and into field coils. Use the path of the long bolt as a guide as there are no field coils where the bolts pass thru.
9. Make and install new data plate telling what parts were used to make starter.
10. Install inspection band and test starter.
I hope this helps folks who want to "convert". Total cost was $50 for the new starter from Ebay.