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694X4 · 01-29-2003, 02:57 PM

Ok this sounds simple but for some reason it's not. The whole story: Truck caught fire from a short. Put in used harness from firewall out. new starter, battery, voltage reg., alt., flex plate, and I have used every shim combination possible even putting shims on one bolt only thinking that maybe it would do some thing but it still skips teath. I went and ordered the bracket thing from a dealer...still skips. I can get it to sound perfect then after 10-15 starts it starts skiping again and the whole process starts over. Oh and it is a 69 gmc 2wd 350/350 hei if you need more info let me know.

**JQ-72** · 01-29-2003, 09:58 PM

Yeah, me too! I have a 72 350 original motor that I have put 7 different starters on. No matter how you shim it, it either skips or grinds something mad when turning over. I have shimmed one side at a time, both sides, no shims, this starter situation has made me use words that I should be ashamed of!!! Anybody??

Joshua

magoo72 · 01-29-2003, 10:05 PM

when i had the problem i found out i had the wrong starter,i tried one from a different year and they were almost identical but in fact they were different,somthing about the way they bolted up. not sure what it was ,but i no longer have the problem.

**pound41** · 01-29-2003, 10:22 PM

I have a 71 blazer that I have owned for over 20yrs. I have had the same trouble for many years. I had put a flywheel in it many years back and still the same thing. Good for a while and then back to draggin. I got my starter from a discount auto chain that had a lifetime warranty. and I was constantly exchanging them. Anyway this trouble went on spractically for 13 years . I have a brace on it and everything. anyway 6 years a go I had the tranny rebuilt and it hadn't done it for several months prior. After I got it back it was grinding again. I took it back and told them. They put another flywheel in and told me to stop using those damn cheap starters with those cheap starter gears. I paid for a precision starter which is a company that rebuilds them here in Virginia. Anyway knock on wood that was 6 yrs ago and no trouble and the same starter

694X4 · 01-30-2003, 10:12 AM

I have tried 5 starters in one monthes time.

01-29-2003, 02:57 PM	#1
694X4 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: utica, oh, Posts: 249	starter problem Ok this sounds simple but for some reason it's not. The whole story: Truck caught fire from a short. Put in used harness from firewall out. new starter, battery, voltage reg., alt., flex plate, and I have used every shim combination possible even putting shims on one bolt only thinking that maybe it would do some thing but it still skips teath. I went and ordered the bracket thing from a dealer...still skips. I can get it to sound perfect then after 10-15 starts it starts skiping again and the whole process starts over. Oh and it is a 69 gmc 2wd 350/350 hei if you need more info let me know. __________________ 69 3/4 ton 4x4 gmc with 6" sky jacker soft ride. 350 / th350 / 205 work in progress

01-29-2003, 09:58 PM	#2
JQ-72 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Killen, Alabama USA Posts: 3,567	Yeah, me too! I have a 72 350 original motor that I have put 7 different starters on. No matter how you shim it, it either skips or grinds something mad when turning over. I have shimmed one side at a time, both sides, no shims, this starter situation has made me use words that I should be ashamed of!!! Anybody?? Joshua __________________ 72 Cheyenne Super swb. Factory 402/400,tach,posi,AM/FM, A/C. Adding cruise, 8-track 72 Cheyenne Super swb. 350/350 A/C, bucket seats 72 Cheyenne swb. Factory 402/400, tilt, posi, A/C 72 Cheyenne Super K-10. 350/4 spd., posi. 72 Suburban 350/350 tilt, tach, AM/FM, A/C, luggage rack 72 GMC Sierra lwb. 350/350, A/C. medium green/olive interior

01-30-2003, 10:12 AM	#5
694X4 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: utica, oh, Posts: 249	I have tried 5 starters in one monthes time. __________________ 69 3/4 ton 4x4 gmc with 6" sky jacker soft ride. 350 / th350 / 205 work in progress

01-29-2003, 10:05 PM	#3
magoo72 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: minden la Posts: 114	when i had the problem i found out i had the wrong starter,i tried one from a different year and they were almost identical but in fact they were different,somthing about the way they bolted up. not sure what it was ,but i no longer have the problem.

01-29-2003, 10:22 PM	#4
pound41 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Northern Virginia Posts: 1,269	I have a 71 blazer that I have owned for over 20yrs. I have had the same trouble for many years. I had put a flywheel in it many years back and still the same thing. Good for a while and then back to draggin. I got my starter from a discount auto chain that had a lifetime warranty. and I was constantly exchanging them. Anyway this trouble went on spractically for 13 years . I have a brace on it and everything. anyway 6 years a go I had the tranny rebuilt and it hadn't done it for several months prior. After I got it back it was grinding again. I took it back and told them. They put another flywheel in and told me to stop using those damn cheap starters with those cheap starter gears. I paid for a precision starter which is a company that rebuilds them here in Virginia. Anyway knock on wood that was 6 yrs ago and no trouble and the same starter



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