99 Expedition starter erratic...
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Make sure they give you a starter for the engine that you have. I don't know if there is a diffrence in the starters between the Romeo or any other engine but there are differences elsewhere in the engines and some critical parts do not interchange.
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Removed "new" (rebuilt) starter - appearance-wise, it's an identical match. BUT - the starter shaft hadn't withdrawn back into the housing after the engine started, leaving it and the attached gear protruding - and obviously engaging the flywheel with engine running. Retracted when I pushed it down (a little late!)
No obvious marks on starter gear or flywheel that I could see. To see if flywheel itself may have been the cause of noise (or now damaged) - I reinstalled the original starter (minus corroded el connection). Fired right up - no more screeching noise. Seems to me I got a bad replacement starter, and will be returning it tomorrow.
Given this - would you recommend against getting another rebuilt and pay the xtra $ for a new one? (not one to spend unnecessarily, but also don't want to get burned twice). I realize there's no guarantees anywhere, but welcome thoughts on better odds of a working part being new?
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Use your original starter and if it ever, goes bad take it to a local starter/alternator rebuilder. That way you will have the rebuilder to talk to, not a vendor. Just glad you didn't give up the original starter as a core then you would be stuck with whatever.
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