Starter choices

There are at least two versions of the later mini starter, maybe more. Some people are finding that with some applications the new mini starters do not engage far enough to catch the ring gear. Either the starter completely freewheels, or barely scrapes the ring gear. My friend Matt, had a 68 D100, 318, 727 stone stock original truck. Starter went bad. We tried FOUR new mini starters from the local O'Reilly and none of them would even touch the ring gear. We finally gave up and I gave him an old used big Chrysler starter I had and it worked fine. So be forewarned. There are different ones. The good old big Chrysler starters worked for fifty plus years. I stick with those now.