Wanted: 24V Starter for Cletrac DD

[DerWindecker]

Hi, I'm from Germany and bought a Cletrac DD last year in Belgium. It's the one Ad Marian photographed and posted in the Cletrac Photo Album. It runs great and the sound is like Devils organ   ! The DD has a pony motor (Citroen 4 Cyl.; perhaps from HY). It's very difficult to restore this pony motor and therefor I decided to search for the original 24V starter. Actually I'm not so familiar with the Cletrac crawlers and therefor I have 2 questions: where can I find the serial number and where can I find a starter? Did they change the starter between 1937 and 1958? BTW: is it perhaps the same starter as in the John Deere 730 (Delco)? Thanks, Hanno

[Blake Malkamaki]

Hanno, I moved your post to the "All Models Except..." section as it will be seen more. Once you find out what model number starter your DD takes, it may not be that hard to find as many of those starters were used on lots of other engines.

Blake

[Bob]

I probably have a starter for the DD. I do know there were a couple different ones they took. Only thing that was different to my knowlege was the legenth of the nose cone. Some had spacers between the engine plate and the starter. I think if you do a search on here it may come up, as I was hunting one years ago, and I believe Robert Barber came up with some numbers and better info!

Bob

[Robert Barbour]

DD Starters
Early to serial number 1L7085  Leece-Neville 1336-M
Later serial number 1L7086 and above Delco Remy 1109323

[John Schwiebert]

You know some measurements would be good. It might be possiable to adapt a newer Delco series. I also have a big Delco out in the barn maybe I should check the number.

[LoggerLee]

Man, I wish I could find a pony motor for mine...takes forever to start the darn Herc

[Bob]

Lee, with no ether it does... But ether is like crack too.

[LoggerLee]

Yep,hit it with ether and it will always want some.