1985 F-250 Starter Problems
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1985 F-250 Starter Problems
Just bought a pretty decent 1985 F-250 for 1500 bucks. Has a rebuilt 460 that has under 1000 miles on it. Its bored .030 over and sucks gas like nothing i've ever seen. I bought it to tow my Jeeps, and it seems to have plenty of power! Problem is, I can't start her without rolling it down a hill.. The starter feels like it's not catching the flywheel like it should. I bought a new starter and that solved the problem, but only for 2 cranks, then it did the same thing. I wondered if the motor had too much compression for the starter to crank, or something along those lines. The flywheel is also new, and is still in good shape, but I can see that its getting ground up pretty good.. so i'd like to get this figured out asap! Thanks for readin.
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Just bought a pretty decent 1985 F-250 for 1500 bucks. Has a rebuilt 460 that has under 1000 miles on it. Its bored .030 over and sucks gas like nothing i've ever seen. I bought it to tow my Jeeps, and it seems to have plenty of power! Problem is, I can't start her without rolling it down a hill.. The starter feels like it's not catching the flywheel like it should. I bought a new starter and that solved the problem, but only for 2 cranks, then it did the same thing. I wondered if the motor had too much compression for the starter to crank, or something along those lines. The flywheel is also new, and is still in good shape, but I can see that its getting ground up pretty good.. so i'd like to get this figured out asap! Thanks for readin.
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The flywheel isn't necessarily getting chewed up, but I can see that the teeth are covered with metal specks, maybe from the starter, but the teeth on the starter look good too. Thanks for your reply! Is there any reason the starters teeth wouldn't mesh with the flywheel??
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I didn't mention that when I crank the starter, is makes a horrible grinding noise, sometimes louder than others, sometimes it fires up, sometimes it doesn't even turn the motor, it just spins freely, almost like the starter isn't engaging all the way, but I figure out of 3 starters one of them should engage right, so I eliminated that idea... but i guess you never know..but this is kinda kickin my butt!
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