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**GregWeld** · #1 09-24-2009, 03:42 PM

Camaro --

There are three different flywheel "tooth counts"... and some starters might only mesh with one or the other.

One is 142 teeth, one is 158 teeth - the other is 163

Divide your flywheel/flexplate by quarters and count the teeth and multiply by 4 - to be certain what you have.

RE: The 'grinding' you mention. Is this only when trying to crank the beast over? Does it stop when you disengage the key?

Do you know how to set your static (initial) timing before starting the engine?? If not I can tell you how to get it VERY close for startup...

1970judge · #2 06-10-2010, 10:58 AM

This is odd. I had the exact same problem on my camaro. It was always very bothersome. I narrowed it down to two solutions that may or may not have been the fix, I will never know as I recently sold my car and engine and trans.

1) Retard the timing a bit, and see if it starts up.

2) If #1 does not work, I would look at the flex plate being bent.

I retarded the timing a great deal and it actually started a little easier than normal, with minimal(but still there) grinding. I had concerns the cam was installed wrong. After further review my engine builder flipped around and gave me good cause to believe it was not, take it for what it is worth. I trust my engine builder with my life, so I trust him with my engine's as well.

camaro1969 · #3 06-10-2010, 10:39 PM

i no longer have the grinding, it was my bendix/pinion that was out of align from being backlashed from a too far advanced dist... anyways i got a new starter, and its since then ive been having this "clicking" noise, so today i removed the starter, and gonna get it tested from the place i bought it, and tell them that i never had the problem with my old starter, which these 2 are like identical!

so i will be trying to make some good progress this weekend, and then once starter issue is dealt with, i am going to take it to blakes, to get a check on why my engine has a fuel pressure of 9psi, and drop 250-300 rpm when i put it in gear! I idle at 900-1000, and drop to 550-700 when put into gear, seems like its gonna stall when i hit the gas.. and it has before too..

itll be the day when my car has NO problems (stopping me from driving the bit*h

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