why not go to your local parts store and buy a rebuilt ford starter for $50 and install it. There is something fundamentally wrong with the concept of shimming the DB starter. If you search this forum, there are multiple threads on installing the DB successfully and no shims were needed. You either have the wrong starter or something else is not correct.
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