Sky-Tec made a new starter which is lighter and more powerful than the others. Its called the XLT, for extra light. Waited over 4 months for production to hit its stride and I now have it and its installed. Nice. Very nice. I had a Magnaflite which was sort of a lighter starter but still big. My mixture control linkage was rotated to make it work and it was not in what I would call optimum position when full rich. It was close to parallel with the arm which made pulling it out for leaning slightly hard, but doable. Now, I can re clock the arm and make a very natural throw which makes me very happy. And, the starter does not interfere with the horizontal air intake snorkel. Nice piece of equipment, worth waiting for.
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