**The facts of Life and the Lincoln SA200 Continental Engine Starter Motors.

Older Delco "shaved side starter"

Denso Style Starrter

High-mount Delco starter.

I have had more problems with Lincoln SA200 starters, because Lincoln had non-standard starter "noses". That is why I need a "code" number to ID your machine. Even then, I see machines "cobbled" together and/or modified. What do you have?

The SA200 octagon barrel (code numbers: XXXX through XXXXX; machines are standardized on a Delco-style starter, p/n: L4718, obsolete but still available at this time). I personally prefer this starter; it is very reliable (I have seen them last 40 years), simple, and repairable. The starter motor is a standard Delco starter motor, and the starter solenoid is a common Delco (GM) style solenoid. It can be replaced on the machine.

Rebuilt Delco, Lincoln part number L-4718 starter

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The "Denso" high-torque starter for style motors seems to work very well; they are readily available, inexpensive, and easy to install.

Their only downside is that they are throwaways. If you are going to depend on them, buy a spare; you will not be able to find one readily on the shelf in Pavement Narrows, North Dakota.

The easiest fix is to buy a Denso-style starter

SA 200 starting with code number XXXX, use a 12-volt Delco starter that had one side milled down so it would clear the engine, no doubt a design oversight or an engineering afterthought? This change started sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s; no one at Lincoln can tell me!

The starter motor is a standard Delco, with one side milled down (if you can find a replacement, you can grind off enough material to make it fit. The problem is that it has an exquisite cast-iron nose, which is not available.

shaves side starter