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Sep 19, 2012 | 09:37 PM

cutlass

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Starter grinding

I have just started up my Ford reman. engine for the first time and I have a new flex plate as well. I hadn't started it up ten times when it began to grind. *****. The starter is pretty new and it had done this on my previous engine as well.

When I took out the old flex plate along with the old engine, it was absolutely trashed. I had the starter sent back to where I got it and they did some testing on it and told me it was all within specs.

Has anyone else battled a grinding starter and where you ever able to resolve the issue?

Thanks,
Drake

Sep 19, 2012 | 11:49 PM

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Grinding when starter is being actuated, or after the motor is running?

Even though they are not suppose to need it, would shimming the starter resolve the issue?

Sep 20, 2012 | 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by BigAlsPSD

Grinding when starter is being actuated, or after the motor is running?

Even though they are not suppose to need it, would shimming the starter resolve the issue?

It's grinding when the starter is being actuated. I thought that shimming it would pull the starter gear further away from the flex plate when engaged (and disengaged) or do I not properly understand how this thing works?

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Sep 20, 2012 | 02:06 AM

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Shimming would help if it was "dragging" like after the motor was running, like you said, by moving it away from the flywheel/flexplate.

If it's doing it while it actuates, then it sounds like a possible voltage/connection issue or a bendix issue.