Spent half an hour going mad trying to find a brake shoe, I got a new set for my old van but never fitted them, they've been in my garage for about two years, the box disintegrated ages back and now when I want them I can only find three of the feckers!
So I gave up on the planned re-shoe and as it had started raining I decided to make a plate up so that I can fit a starter to a DI engine without a g/box, I used some 4mm steel plate and cut out a hole for the starter nose and then drilled some holes to fit it to the plate and then drilled some more to bolt the starter plate to the engine....job done
Curiously it needed a couple of thickish washers between the plate and the engine to get the starter and flywheel teeth meshing fully, otherwise it was only meshing halfway, even though the plate is basically flat across the back of the engine just the same as where the bellhousing would be?
I should have taken a pic it would be easier to understand then