F20 Electric Start

bignate1981 · Apr 1, 2014

Hi, i have a 1939 F20 that is equipped with a Starter , it mounts up front with the drive facing to the rear, the flywheel is mounted at the crankshaft pulley. Can anyone supply any information on this setup, such as how common or rare it is, value, etc. Thank you so much in advance for any help/info.

rustred · Apr 1, 2014

its a home made set up. that is not a flywheel, but a flexplate.
if it was factory the starter would be at rear of engine driving the flywheel.

robgIN · Apr 1, 2014

a picture would help a lot , there were several different makes , plus homemade setups. I think there was a setup that went on the front of the engine sold by Sears maybe, but I think that was chain driven.

rusticredacres · Apr 1, 2014

The front mount setup with flex plate type flywheel was as Rob said a Sears and Roebuck setup. There probably was some homemade setups installed by farmer mechanics. The Sears setup used a starter similar to an 8N ford starter and the drive pulled back into teeth on flywheel. A picture would help us see what you have. There was not a factory bellhousing setup ever but a Heisler starter setup using a factory looking bellhousing and making some think it was factory.

Old-F20 · Apr 2, 2014

I will also concur that Sears made a setup like described. pretty scarce.....ive only ever seen ONE of those setups

F-Dean · Apr 4, 2014

There were NO factory electric starting F-20s.
Heisler made hundreds of kits. Note that here is no IHC cast mark on the bell housing.

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