Caspian
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Well I bought a 3/8-16 Heli Coil kit at O’Really’s, after going “oh really” at their minuscule selection of bolts for a bigger store. Punched the hole out to 25/64” which is the required size for the 3/8”-16 Heli-Coil, tapped the hole 25/64” then installed the Heli-Coil, went flush, then a full turn below flush netted an almost similar hole as the factory hole.
I got the starter bolted, changed the oil and filter while I was under there, fired her up and it started great, no grind or nothing, however you put it in Reverse and it’d grind, shut it off and it’d grind.
Flexplate was hitting the very tip of the bendix, well this damned starter has three different ways to shim it, so in order to shim it back away from the flexplate, you take three bolts out, pop the motor case off the face/bendix, pull the bendix assembly out, put the little round shim in and put it back together. Now I’ve got a slight grind on start up so I need to shim it down a little with a regular shim.
So after all this, I’m like yay I’m home free, we’ll someone put a huge ******* rock in the alleyway behind my house, I’m thinking to keep people from trying to go through there even though it’s an electric company easement right of way. Dad warned me about it, so I’m creeping along, I go over this sum *****, think I’m alright, get to the street and proceed down and around the corner to the house, died on me twice partially in the yard/street.
So at this point I’m like wth, it’s never done this to me before, stone cold dead, no key or nothing so it’s a direct ground situation. Try to take the negative off and it’s hot and arcs like crazy. Dad is saying it’s the damned starter, I say its something else. I get it jacked up enough to get my ****** under it, starter is fine, oh there’s the problem. Rock pushed the damned battery cable up against the exhaust manifold is my only guess and it melted to the manifold and ground out. I pryed it off the manifold and got it started and up in the yard.
So tomorrow I need to put a new negative cable on, and shim the damned starter. If it’s not one damn thing it’s another. I’m tired and cold, peace out for now!
I got the starter bolted, changed the oil and filter while I was under there, fired her up and it started great, no grind or nothing, however you put it in Reverse and it’d grind, shut it off and it’d grind.
Flexplate was hitting the very tip of the bendix, well this damned starter has three different ways to shim it, so in order to shim it back away from the flexplate, you take three bolts out, pop the motor case off the face/bendix, pull the bendix assembly out, put the little round shim in and put it back together. Now I’ve got a slight grind on start up so I need to shim it down a little with a regular shim.
So after all this, I’m like yay I’m home free, we’ll someone put a huge ******* rock in the alleyway behind my house, I’m thinking to keep people from trying to go through there even though it’s an electric company easement right of way. Dad warned me about it, so I’m creeping along, I go over this sum *****, think I’m alright, get to the street and proceed down and around the corner to the house, died on me twice partially in the yard/street.
So at this point I’m like wth, it’s never done this to me before, stone cold dead, no key or nothing so it’s a direct ground situation. Try to take the negative off and it’s hot and arcs like crazy. Dad is saying it’s the damned starter, I say its something else. I get it jacked up enough to get my ****** under it, starter is fine, oh there’s the problem. Rock pushed the damned battery cable up against the exhaust manifold is my only guess and it melted to the manifold and ground out. I pryed it off the manifold and got it started and up in the yard.
So tomorrow I need to put a new negative cable on, and shim the damned starter. If it’s not one damn thing it’s another. I’m tired and cold, peace out for now!
