Starter dating question

[fireguyfire]

I’m restoring my 69 charger which was rough when I bought it from the original owners family, but very original including still having factory rad hoses, etc.
I’ve finally got around to refreshing the starter to bolt up to the restored engine. I was really hoping it still had the original starter that I could rebuild, but now I’m thinking it has been rebuilt in the past, but I’m looking for clarification.
The star wheel on the side of the aluminum housing has a 68 in the center, which is good for a 69 car. The bad news is that the 3 digit number on the barrel is 30:. I’m guessing that means 3rd week of 1970 but I’m wondering what the colon after the 30 means? I can’t recall seeing a colon after a date number before.

 

[Slantsixdan]

What is the entire number – all of the digits – on the motor housing ("barrel")?

 

[The Rebel]

Post a pic of it as well to help with the decoding

 

[3sloppydogs]

I've never dated a starter

 

[70rrclone]

 

[ruffcut]

I would start slow, holding hands, and see where it leads!

 

[fireguyfire]

 

[Sixpaksteve]

I've never dated a starter

Me either. All of mine were pretty broke in by the time I got around to them.

 

[Dave6T4]

Go to a bar, and start licking your eyebrows. Oh, different kind of dating. LOL

 

[ruffcut]

I've never dated a starter

 

[Slantsixdan]

This starter is not original to the car.

2095 219 is the pinion housing for the pre-1970 starter (brush plate attached to pinion housing with one internal screw). It was used on two starter motor assemblies (that's the number on the round motor housing): 2095 150, used '62 to '69, and 2098 500, used '63-'69.

2875 560 was the first of the revised-design starters, introduced for the 1970 model year (though some late-production '69s got the new starter, too, per a TSB). The pinion housing is 2875 551, and the brush plate attaches to it with two external screws threading into ears that weren't present on the earlier pinion housing. This design was kept through to the 1987 end of the Chrysler-built gear-reduction starter, though in '74 there was a part number change on the pinion housing from 2875 551 to 3755 261.

So: no, this is not the car's original starter. It's a "reman" unit thrown together from mixmatched parts. Probably doesn't have the original-type field coils in it, either (original would've been 3-series/1-shunt, versus the later 4-series, which the "remanufacturers" tended to throw in all the starters).

The original starter on your car would have been a 2095 150 or 2875 560 with a build date zero to a few months before the car's build date.

 

[Bird 426]

Just for the hell of it. Over on the electrical thread, Vaanth listed part #'s and years for starters.

 

[kiwigtx]

I've never dated a starter

I was thinking along the same lines.....

 

[rickseeman]

I would start slow, holding hands, and see where it leads!

Doing that can get you in big trouble.

 

[ruffcut]

Doing that can get you in big trouble.

Agreed!

 

[WileE]

Ok... dating a starter... firstly, be sure your solenoid moves back and forth very quickly and smoothly, and engages firmly.