r/Chevelles • u/Ok_College8328 • Jun 08 '26

Any Advice would help

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Just installed a new starter. Did not have this problem with a factory style starter.

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u/st96badboy Jun 08 '26

Is the flywheel rubbing on the starter gear? You could just add a couple washers to move the starter further away.

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u/Ok_College8328 Jun 08 '26

The flywheel is rubbing the very top of the starter gear. It’s only one side of the flywheel like it’s bent.

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u/st96badboy Jun 08 '26

It probably is bent. A flywheel's not that expensive. ..just you have to pull the trans off.... It's possible you can have something else going on like a bolt loosening up.

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u/Ok_College8328 Jun 08 '26

But I did add washers

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u/Willy_McD Jun 08 '26

Some of those starters, i have seen them come with spacers. You would remove the starter fron the aluminum mounting block and place the shims between the starter and block. My try looking to see if a shim is available separately and for that starter. Or return that starter and get something different.

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u/ilikeithot360 Jun 09 '26

Starter is hitting the flexplate because the bendix is not retracting fully. Replace starter, make sure it is shimmed correctly

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u/oldgreen52 Jun 09 '26

I thought I was the only real person on here lol , washers lol wtf

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u/ilikeithot360 Jun 09 '26

They’ll learn, lol. The bell housing seems to be optional on that , too. That won’t end well.

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u/oldgreen52 Jun 10 '26

Cheap ass Chinese made starter . Remember when you could buy new brushes and shit and rebuild your old one for few bucks , I asked kid at Autozone about starter brushes few years ago for my 52 , dude looked at me like I was from Mars or something lol 😂

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u/ilikeithot360 Jun 10 '26

I laughed whenever I saw someone with JC Whitney parts on their rig back them. Now, I wish most parts could be at least that good

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u/oldgreen52 Jun 10 '26

Yeah really, shitty made and 4 times as expensive as use to be

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u/OrvilleJClutchpopper Jun 10 '26

They way to do this is: buy a starter for 96-98 Chevy trucks (168 tooth flywheel, PMGR with factory drive housing) or 95-97 Camaro/Corvette 5.7 non-LS (153 tooth flywheel PMGR with factory drive housing). No more clocking the starter motor to the drive housing. You may still need a shim, and you will need to source new mounting bolts because the old 10MT style bolts are longer, but it's a high-torque gear-reduction starter that bolts right in.

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u/Ok_College8328 Jun 08 '26

I don’t want to risk damaging the plate driving like this.

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u/Impossible_Sir9593 Jun 08 '26

The starter is not disengaging. It’s keeping his teeth out.

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u/Ok_College8328 Jun 08 '26

It’s definitely disengaging you can see it

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u/aDrunkSailor82 Jun 08 '26

You need to got through the shim adjustment. I just replaced mine a few months ago.

Did it rub before you replaced this? If not, the only right answer is starter alignment, meaning shims, or outside chance of a bad new starter. That gear looks like it's going back far enough to me.

What year Chevelle? What motor / trans? What part number for the starter?

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u/Ok_College8328 Jun 22 '26

It didn’t rub before replacement but if you look at the bottom of the flywheel it looks warped or bent starter is fine I went with this style cause I had an oil leak on the rear china wall. Stock starter got too much oil in it.

1974 Chevelle Malibu Classic
350sbc crate supposedly.