Also Starter Problem

[Shoreline4104374464]

2000 Chev 2500, automatic with 5.7L.  We got the truck in 2007 CHEAP knowing the previous owner said it needed a new engine because a part-time employee was changing the starter, and was fired before it could be installed, and in spite he took starter bolts with him and the starter was installed by another kid using the wrong bolts (it's what we were told ??).  Those wrong starter bolts cracked the block when the starter torqued.  We could not believe it needed new engine just because of that.  

 

We tried new starters, helicoils, welding the block, whatever would work, but we had to replace the engine.  2 or 3 months goes by and the starter begins grinding at start-up.  Same thing it was doing with old engine....  Replaced starter several more times for same problem.  Replaced the flywheel in there somewhere, but it only lasts a month -/+ then grinds and strips its gears.  Mechanic assumes the Jasper block is bad and replaces engine AGAIN.  Now has had 3 Different engines in it, and the starter begins doing same grind at startup. Starter has been replaced 25+ times in one year.  Longest so far was 3 months. Mechanics tried shims and secret nose cones.  Nobody has answers.  Is it the starter or the engine block??  3 different engines and all do the same thing??  Help!! I got a bet that the new starter of 9/24 wont last a month.

[WaterGuy]

Some starter bolts had a special area (hash marks?) along the shaft that aligned the starter.

What happened to the shims?

Did you do the gapping procedure between the starter gear and the ring rear?

[txab]

Some starter bolts had a special area (hash marks?) along the shaft that aligned the starter.

What happened to the shims?

Did you do the gapping procedure between the starter gear and the ring rear?

It's called knurling.

 

Wonder if OP fixed his problem, since he never has returned.

[WaterGuy]

Some starter bolts had a special area (hash marks?) along the shaft that aligned the starter.

What happened to the shims?

Did you do the gapping procedure between the starter gear and the ring rear?

It's called knurling.

 

Wonder if OP fixed his problem, since he never has returned.

 

OP was last Seen: 13th October 2009 - 03:26 PM

 

I wish people come back to update/close-out the question.

[Nytemare]

Your problem is caused by the transmission.

you need to get a new bell-housing. I'll bet it got warped enough from the first starter torquing over that it allows play on everything else you put in there now.

 

I mean if everything else has been replaced...there's only one thing left.

 

Unless you have headers on this truck and no heat shield on the starter. But this wouldn't cause binding and chewing of the starter...it would simply just quit working.