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> I'll pull it this weekend.  Is it possible to install these 
> upside down?  Not that I would of course.  That would be 
> stoooopid.  I have never been that.  Well, once, maybe.  
> Maybe twice.  Maybe twice a year, or was it day, or what was 
> it I did wrong twice in the past ten minutes??????
I tried deliberately installing it the other way (trying to get the motor 
farther away from the exhaust); but it wouldn't fit.  
But I believe that, if it did fit, it would still work.  The shaft seems to be 
on-center to the mounting holes, so the shaft would
stay the same distance from the ring gear.
On the one I have, you can also try rotating the adapter.  That didn't fit 
either.  I finally wound up just sticking a piece of
roofing tin between the starter motor and exhaust pipe.  In another 8 years or 
so, I'll find out if that worked :)  (Previous gear
drive starter lasted about 10 years before the exhaust heat cooked the grease 
and ruined the bearings.)
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Randall
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