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About a month ago my starter started grinding intermittently when I went to start it. I asumed it was the starter gear grinding on the flywheel. I really needed a running vehicle since my camaro was down. I went to autozone and picked up a replacement, installed it and tested it out. After a day it started grinding again. Drove the truck the next day. At a turn, I kinda floored it to fishtale a bit and I'm assuming the starter gear got caught on the flywheel because there was a loud squealing noise and when I turned the truck off the starter just kept grinding on every attempt. Any ideas why this happened? Is my flywheel f*cked?

 

My first guess would be. Another shitty autozone starter. Pull the inspection plates & take a look @ the flywheel.

Starter teeth or softer then the flywheel teeth.

 

The Flywheel may very well be toast too, usually once the starter starts grinding the flywheel teeth are shot also. I agree that the AutoZone remans are crap though, as are most of their electrical remans.

 

Thanks for the info. Also if the flywheel is toast, I have a flywheel from a 98 ls1 camaro, will it work?

 

Not so sure on that one, but I don't think so...if you want an upgrade, Circle-D has a nice high performance flywheel that they offer. I plan to get one when I put my LQ9 together

 

Well I checked the flywheel through the peek hole for possible damage. Everything looked fine.



So I took out the stater to take a peek there.


Atleast i'll finally have a reason to stall the truck

 

Any idea how this could have happened?

 

A little JB Weld should do the trick! Sorry, I had to do it before someone else did

 

Tried it.

 

What does the starter look like?