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Original Lister Cs Engines / Electric starter for 6/1
« on: July 11, 2022, 10:27:27 PM »
Hey guys there has been a conversation here on-and-off about various starters for CSs – some elegant air motors, some starter-motor conversions with rubber cush drives, various units employing a belt . . .
Realising that, sooner or later, I’m going to get too old to crank the Listers, I’ve been keen to build a starter and have been working away with some components
I tack-welded some of the bits together yesterday and attached it to the CS with some G-clamps and gave it a trial run just using a battery off my car, some heavy jumper leads and a bit of wire with a spade clip to liven-up the starter motor.
See pics? It’s pretty self-explanatory. What the parts are is:
A starter motor and flex-plate off an old Nissan car from the wreckers.
A 2” keyed taper-lock unit with a weld boss outer assembly, plus a hand cut/filed stepped key and a couple of grub-screw holes cut and threaded into the boss.
A bit of 10mm plate roughly cut round, bolted to the flex plate, then put in a chuck and bored to suit the weld boss of the taper-lock.
The starter-motor bolted onto a mount to suit; and that mount welded onto the chassis that supports the CS
It was raining cats-and-dogs yesterday so all I did was tack it in place and use it to start the Lister three or four times with the de-compression at the exhaust valve engaged, then dropped once the revs were up after about three or four rotations.
Works like a charm. I got sick of getting wet before I gave it a try with full compression – I don’t know if I’d normally do that, anyway, as it seems unnecessarily hard on the gear; and it’ll be easy to mount a starter button somewhere near the pushrod side of the motor.
I reckon costs were something like:
Starter motor & ring-gear/flex-plate - $50
Taper-lock insert and weld boss - $80
Machine boss-sized hole in plate - $50
Bits of steel, welding & bolts scrounged at zero cost
This week, hopefully, I’ll weld stuff together properly and give it a better run on the next weekend I’m up there. Cheers
Realising that, sooner or later, I’m going to get too old to crank the Listers, I’ve been keen to build a starter and have been working away with some components
I tack-welded some of the bits together yesterday and attached it to the CS with some G-clamps and gave it a trial run just using a battery off my car, some heavy jumper leads and a bit of wire with a spade clip to liven-up the starter motor.
See pics? It’s pretty self-explanatory. What the parts are is:
A starter motor and flex-plate off an old Nissan car from the wreckers.
A 2” keyed taper-lock unit with a weld boss outer assembly, plus a hand cut/filed stepped key and a couple of grub-screw holes cut and threaded into the boss.
A bit of 10mm plate roughly cut round, bolted to the flex plate, then put in a chuck and bored to suit the weld boss of the taper-lock.
The starter-motor bolted onto a mount to suit; and that mount welded onto the chassis that supports the CS
It was raining cats-and-dogs yesterday so all I did was tack it in place and use it to start the Lister three or four times with the de-compression at the exhaust valve engaged, then dropped once the revs were up after about three or four rotations.
Works like a charm. I got sick of getting wet before I gave it a try with full compression – I don’t know if I’d normally do that, anyway, as it seems unnecessarily hard on the gear; and it’ll be easy to mount a starter button somewhere near the pushrod side of the motor.
I reckon costs were something like:
Starter motor & ring-gear/flex-plate - $50
Taper-lock insert and weld boss - $80
Machine boss-sized hole in plate - $50
Bits of steel, welding & bolts scrounged at zero cost
This week, hopefully, I’ll weld stuff together properly and give it a better run on the next weekend I’m up there. Cheers
