Starter Issues

[glennfolley]

Thanks for letting me join. Recently Bought a 85 CJ7 was told it needed a starter. Well but a new starter on an same thing happens. God awful grinding noise. Its the right starter for a 85 AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l . Looks like starter gear is hitting the fly wheel few shiny spots all the teeth are there on both. Try shims dust plate is still on that side of bell housing. Wondering if someone may have put in the wrong fly wheel or bell housing. ANY Help would be great. Maybe some way to identify the problem before I start taking it all completely apart??

 

[Lumpy Grits]

:ww:

Without some pictures, hard to say.
We also need to know the history of mods to this Jeep.
How do you know for fact, you have the correct starter?
LG

 

[glennfolley]

Thanks for the reply Lumpy. According to O reilys autozone its the correct starter. No mods that I am aware of. Looks like someone maybe did clutch job? Tranny missing a bolt or 2 Maybe 2 missing on bell housing. According to the stores an internet Bell housing fits AMC 232 i6 AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l and AMC 304 same bolt pattern on starters just different cranking all 9 teeth Just trying to try anything before I start taking it all apart THANKS

 

[Torxhead]

Can you get the engine to turn over at all? If not you could turn the flywheel a bit manually to give the teeth a better mesh.

 

[Lumpy Grits]

Do you have a NAPA near you? Take that starter to NAPA and do a side by side comparison with theirs.
Have NAPA load test your starter.
Get those missing bolts replaced-ASAP.
LG

 

[Vikingone]

I’m having the same problem but it totally took out my flywheel. (Saving the pennies now to fix it). Here’s what I’ve been told. #1 ABSOLUTELY get the proper amount of bolts to secure it to the motor. And #2. There are supposed to be 2 dowel pins. One at 3 o’clock and one at 9 o’clock. I’ve been told that without those dowel pins there’s a lot of torque when starting and it causes things to move. When I pulled my Transmission I too found a bolt missing and a dowel pin missing as well. I can’t tell you at this point if it fixes it because I haven’t had the money to complete the job yet but these were things told to me. I also was told a NAPA starter is the way to go as well as a new starter solenoid. The Advanced and autozone nightmares aren’t up to snuff. Hope this helps and let us now when it’s fixed what you did. Good luck.


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