detroitdiesel4x4
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- Piney Hicks N.J
My starter has been grinding every now and then, so I used to use a breaker bar to move the crank over enough to hit some "fresh" teeth and get it running. Naturally it got worse and worse to the point there the engine would only turn over about 1/4 crank before I had to rotate it again. I assumed my flex plate teeth were probably all chewed up and missing, and the problem started in one spot and just got worse and worse as the starter and the flex plate wore out. Much to my surprise, I pulled the cover off the bellhousing and found no missing teeth, and the flex plate was still tight and in place wich I thought might have been the cause of all this. You can see on the flexplate teeth, where only the ends of them have any wear on them, on the engine side. On the trans side of the teeth, they look almost un-touched since when it was replaced. It looks like the starter was only grabbing the first 1/8 of the flex plate. I checked to see if the bracked was still on the starter, wich it was, but upon closer inspection I noticed the bolt wasn't on it so I guess it wasn't doing any good. So what do you think? Bad shimming or bad bendix?