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I worked on it tonight for a couple hours, extracted the broken bolt and tried to measure clearance... I really couldn’t see. I went ahead and added two shims thinking if it was too much I could easily take one out. So I started with 1/32 shim now at 3/32. Installed starter with new bolts and...

I had no idea there were shims for the nose of the starter

Thanks, that’s the lead I was looking for. I have wondered in the past if the starter was “too close” to the flywheel and thus causing stress on the bolts.

I ask this because I haven’t seen a thread about this when correct bolts and correct bracket was applied .

Hello all, I know this subject has been beat to death in this forum. This is the third time in 4 or five months I’ve had to drill out a starter bolt. Last time this happened I added the correct starter bracket that It did not have when I bought it. Also put gm starter bolts # 15544950. Both of...