Just to elaborate on why I had the problem, my Pinto didn't have a flywheel as it was from an auto. I adapted a kent flywheel to suit, had it re-centred and balanced as an assembly and then forgot about it until the engine was in the car! The pinto has 132 teeth of a quite fine pitch, the kent (as manufactured in South Africa) has 106 quite coarse pitch but not a lot of difference in the diameter. The pinto starter came nowhere close and the inertia starter with a 10 tooth bendix from a kent just kissed the teeth of the ring gear and because of the size of the body it was not possible to slot the holes and slide the motor across. Fortunately the owner of our local spares shop loves his motor racing and loaned me a dozen or so of his smallest starter motors once I explained the problem, the solution was a Toyota 1BZ reduction starter with a 9 tooth pinion fitted as per the photo, so far works fine!
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