I bought a boat with a 468 BB chevy and it had a mini torque starter on it. I cranked it 3-4 times and the starter quit. I borrowed a buddies starter (the big old school type) and it spins the motor much faster and worked perfect. When I was talking to some friends about this they all said the mini torques were junk and that they all had tried them and had gone through numerous starters only to go back to the big old type. Have any of you experienced this and if not which mini torques are you running?

mini starters are awesome and will spin much faster! it was prolly on its way out anyway. all we use on our racecars is mini starters. Tilton is an awesome starter.

I was told the clip on the nose come off?? I has never happened to me. Has it ever happened to any one here?

Randy

Bought my 7.4 with a mini starter on it. No issues so far. In the auto world, that's all I run - and pretty much all the factories run anymore.

As cheek said, yours was dying already.

Here is a nice mini starter which uses all ball bearings.
http://www.cpperformance.com/p-13772...r-starter.aspx
I know it's expensive but some of them mini starters under $100 are junk. You get what you pay for!

Switched to a mini 2 years ago after I toased 2 brand new starters and a rebuilt one in 2 weeks.

Have not had a problem with the mini in fact my engine starts much faster now.

Tilton +1

No problems so far and fires very quick also had them in a truck with 502bbc no problems

on the race car, we have a shelf full of them,,on my boats i have powermaster,10 yrs and no issues..the best part about powermanter is they will go through them for 125.00..when we get them rebuilt for the race car they look brand new when we get them back..

p.s. all the bad ones on the shelf are tilton's

i have used them in boats for years,with no problems.