It seems that my starter is having fits. It stopped the other day while turning the engine over, so I got out, pulled the coil wire(just to be safe) and turned the engine over by hand, got back in and it started fine. Well, today it did it again, and it still won't do anything. So I pulled the starter and it had a bunch of oil on the contact surfaces of the housing(where it touches the flywheel and gets a ground. Could this cause it to loose its ground? And will another starter that I have (model 1107108) fit my flywheel? I researched it and the Chevs of the 40's site said that it will fit a '38 through '48. Is that it? It came off of the engine that WE b Old had in his truck. I measured the distance between the teeth on both one starter and the other and they both had the same distance between the teeth, this tells me that the replacement will work but I don't want to tear up the flywheel.
