starter motor compatability

[daver clasper]

Hi folks

Is the starter motor for the Vitesse the same or compatible as for Herald/Spitfire please.

Cheers, Dave

[Steve AKA vitessesteve]

According to Canley Classics the starter motors are the same. http://www.canleyclassics.com/triumph-vitesse-dynamo-starter-motor-and-starter-solenoid-switch

[daver clasper]

Thanks Steve

My computer was playing up, or I would have checked part numbers.

There's a bloke selling a few on e bay for a fiver that have been bench tested, so Iv'e grabbed one as a spare, may need new brushes etc but hopefully ok.

Cheers, Dave

[junkuser]

Early had a nut retaining the Bendix and later had circlip and retaining ring.
There are repeated shock loadings on this over the years and the ring is hard.

Having had one of those retaining rings fail on the Spitfire years ago, have only used the nut type since.
I have driven several different vehicles, many thousands of miles since the 60s fitted with the early type and this was the first one of the ring type I had ever come across, so please accept my feelings on them.

There is no warning, just a starter motor revving high, so need a push or a cooperative slope.

Probably rare to happen and I can't be sure of the cause, but mention in case of interest.

[RobPearce]

I don't think I've ever had a nut type, always the ring. I've never had one fail - plenty of sticky ones, failed brushes, dodgy contacts, but never a retaining ring/circlip failure.