Starter Issues

[Bundy]

Hey all!

My starter bit the dust a year ago and then the once day the replacement just spun. When I removed it there were no teeth left on the starter's gear. Replaced it with a Auto zone special and ever since I've had that awful starter sound.

This weekend I was walking through O-reillys and saw the generic shim .100" kit and decided to give it a go. Well now instead of every 10 starts it makes that noise most of the time so I guess I didn't properly shim it.

I looked at the teeth on the flywheel and they are not looking great but I'm hoping there is still enough to engage the starter.

I'm not sure what happened as I'm fairly certain we made sure it's always been a starter for manual tranny.

Any ideas?

 

[roundhouse]

Get an OEM one
Or one from a local rebuilder.
The auto zone ones are garbage
They just repaint em and resell em as a rebuilt

 

[jw0747]

x2 don't ever buy replacement parts of any kind from Autozone. Junk. Get a high torque mini starter from Tom's. If the teeth on the flywheel are bad you'll probably need to replace it.