Starter woes

[rayfinseats]

I had it fixed for a couple months. Now I'm throwing in the towel. New flexplate and a new not rebuilt starter and taking it to a mechanic. One thing I learned about starters is Oriylee (spelled wrong on purpose) starters suck. The first $30 rebuilt tore up my flexplate. Then I went to a NEW chinese made starter and the bolts were coming loose that hold the starter together even after using lock tite. Then the replacement broke a tooth off the starter.
I finally had it working great for 2 months and now all of the sudden the flexplate is grinding bad. I must have hit the bad spot.
I found out that a SBC will stop in one of three different spots on the flexplate. The paper clip spacing trick seems to be the winner winner chicken dinner and I did add a front brace.
Funny, I've had small block chevys now for over 30 years and never had this many problems with starters. I guess the quality of the crap shipped into this country isn't what it used to be. I couldn't even find an ac delco starter unless I went to a dealer reman for $180. I'm sure I'll get it whipped now but dam...