Heres fly wheel pic

And the freaken starter

That sucks for shits and giggles I would throw a pep boys 35 dollar starter in there and see what it does

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I like ur style rush i just might like i said ill try anything before i hav to pull motor after i just put it in.....im sorry but wats the flex plate?

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That sucks for shits and giggles I would throw a pep boys 35 dollar starter in there and see what it does. I agree I would put another starter on it I had that problem starter would engage and crank for two second then gear would suck back in and spin and sound like a grinding

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Also try a 0.20 shim see if noise and problem goes away unless you have a hole in the back flex plate cover to measure the gap between the starter and the flex plate


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No your 100% right on the money, it's not going into the gear far enough.

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You might wanna double check what starter that is. There are 2 different flex plate/starter possibilities here. There are 153 tooth and 168 tooth flex plates and they have to use the corresponding starter.


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I cant find anywhere online that says what this starter uses teeth wise....i does say 14in fkex plate tho?

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454 bbc...no old starter this is the one that came with boat it was a basket case wen i got it so no pics sorry... this starter looked as if it had never even been used  before tho so maybe previous owner f'd up?

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Maybe well just like my hard headed self gota find things out the hard way. Lol...oh well back at it today gonna try to cum up with something.


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That sucks for shits and giggles I would throw a pep boys 35 dollar starter in there and see what it does

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tried the pepboys 35 dollar but its to big now in search of a mini starter 9 teeth

So looking to purchase a 9 teeth mini starter now and how come they say "will replace older 9 tooth starters" ? Is there no difference? Uug !!!!!!


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maybe post up your block numbers here and ask exactly what year the engine is and what starter and flex plate should be in there someone like GT Jets will know exactly what it should be.

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