Owen Aaland said: (quoted from post at 00:12:48 12/21/14) How are you engaging the starter? If you are just jumping across the from the battery cable stud to the starter motor terminal all you are doing is running the motor without the solenoid pulling the drive gear into the flywheel.
Yup could be a few things so start with the cheapest.
1. make sure that you are arcing the right two posts.
2. you may need to remove the dust cover to see if the starter is still engaged in the flex plate turn the toque converter/crank a little to try and loosen the Bendix gear. You can use the large bolt on the Harmonic crank balancer.
2.5 go to the store and buy a pack of band-aids finger wrap type, you'll need them. :wink: :wink: :D
3. Disconnect the battery :the bolt - Is it two or three bolt starter cone?
3.5 Jackstands...
Either way you are going to need a 24" extension and a wobbly joint to get the top bolt. The two bolt, you'll get it from the back and the three bolt you'll go in from the front. Both ways you will need all your savvy to weave that long extension past the exhaust or through the motor mount past the gas lines.
From the factory chevy has a 7/16 nut on the back side of the starter to support the front of the starter, I would say that 99.999999% of them have been removed due to the fact they are a bugger to get back on. Once the bolts are out remove the battery cable from the starter.
Newer Chevy' have two knurled shank bolts going up though the bottom of the starter, sometimes this type needed shims to hold it away from the flex-plate ring gear. THIS TYPE OF STARTER WAS DOOMED FROM THE BEGINNING DUE TO HEAT OFF THE EXHAUST. FYI > If you can slip a thin sheet of aluminum between the exhaust and starter you can double the life of the starter.
4. Don't drop the starter on your fingers or your face, and if you do at least you have band-aids ;)
5. a bad valve cover gasket can drip enough oil on the starter to make it do funky things even flames. Oil can get in and ground out the solenoid contacts, brushes and/or armature. Also if the starter is oil flooded when it cools down it drags even more.
That's it for now
Good luck
This post was edited by Fatamus at 01:11:04 12/21/14.
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