Starter fitment questions

[Guest]

Can anyone tell me the differences between four cylinder starters? Will a 750 starter fit a 1000?

[sharpy]

cross reference in parts books. all available online

[Steve]

There were only about 4 starters used across the GS line, so there is a good chance it <might> work.

As Sharpy said, check the parts fiche to see if they are the same number.

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[bwringer]

Most likely. But it might depend on exactly what 750 and what 1000.

But yeah, there's a LOT of parts interchangeability, and only a few starter types were used in the GS line. That's one of the things that lets us keep so many of these old nails on the road.

Bear in mind that, for example, there are at least two manufacturers (Mitsuba and Nippondenso, if memory serves) used to build starters for the GS850 models. The starters are different (two brush vs. four brush) and have different part numbers, but they interchange.

And they interchange between lots of models, too, sometimes in surprising ways. I once installed a GS1000E starter into a later model GS850GL.

One good place to start sorting all this out is Stocker's Starters:

http://www.stockers.com/

Check different models, look at the pics, and do some pondering and you'll start to figure out whether your swap will work. But bear in mind that the info at Stockers is not quite complete either; they don't seem to list starters for some earlier GS models.

For example, this listing for a rebuilt Mitsuba:

http://www.stockers.com/index.php?dt=SS-5

Fits: Suzuki Motorcycle
1980-1982 GS550
1981-1982 GS650E
1980-1983 GS750E
1980-1983 GS850G
1980-1982 GS1000
1980-1984 GS1100
12 Volt, CCW, 9 Teeth
Replaces: SM-8210