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Originally Posted by Paul Merolla
Also, don't count out the possibility that the starter gear could be too far away from the ring gear. I ran into that on my street car - for years, it sounded like a cat got its tail stuck in there, but no amount of shimming would cure it. I finally got fed up and took a good hard look...only the ends of the teeth were meshing. Ended up filing down the aluminum on the starter. Sounds great now.
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Paul, most of the better made racing starters had a washer/shim between the alum block and the starter motor. If you removed it then this would be rectified. I had a cheaper one and had to machine the alum mounting block also. This was for my Buick so I thought it was just a Buick thing. lol