finally got my new inner primary and am putting everything back together but i have ran into a problem. i have the sleeve on the rear side of the inner primary over the starter splines but when i try to put the parts of the jack shaft that are inside the inner primary together with the sleeve i do not have any threads making contact to tighten the small bolt that holds the jack shaft to the starter. i know the starter pushes the jack shaft out about an inch or so when you hit the start button. is there a way to make it push the shaft out enough so i can get the bolt started without the starter spinning over?

 

found the problem

 

Can you tell me what you did to get bolt to thread. Mine doesnt seem to want to reach threads on starter either. I know i have everything installed correctly. Thanks

 

I know this is an old post - brother inlaw having same problem - old bolt is smaller than the new starter, did Moco make a change and go to a larger bolt?

 

same problem. Put everything back together and now I can get the small bolt to reach the r threads on thestarter shaft.

 

Having same problem. Put everything back together and nowcan't get small bolt to start in starter shaft

 

Use the bolt from the different year.

But seriously dude this thread is 9 years old