# Updated starter **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** starters, continental, lincoln\ **Created:** [January 3, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/updated-starter/59450 "2011-01-03T02:24:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jhr5129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jhr5129](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jhr5129)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/updated-starter/59450/1 "2011-01-03T02:24:25Z")
starter on my 02 Continental engages only 1/2 the gear teeth width. If I can get a starter that engages full width of teeth I might not need to replace flywheel teeth. Only inside half of tooth width is stripped in engagement area. ---
**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan2)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/updated-starter/59450/2 "2011-01-03T05:04:04Z")
Maybe and maybe not. You will have to find out. ---
**Author:** ![Manolito](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/manolito/32/3070_2.png) [@Manolito](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Manolito)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 6:21am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/updated-starter/59450/3 "2011-01-03T06:21:38Z")
I would bet dollars to donuts that any new starter you can find that will fit the mounting point will be exactly the same dimension. If I am correct, unless there is something wrong with your starter or a way that it can be modified with a thinner bushing in the nose to let the gear out further, this will be a recurring problem. In any event, you have already determined that half a tooth is not enough, so even if you get the starter to extend out and catch the back half of the teeth, you will likely get only a year or two out of that ring gear before what is left of the teeth fails.