What's up guys? New to the forum.
Bought a Hot Rod a few years ago that was mostly built and used it as my daily for a while. It's a '58 Ford F100 with Camaro clip and 427 Chevy motor (75 ish 454 truck block). 700R4 Tranny. Started eating starters a while back. Mostly alignment issues, I think???
Anyway, replaced the flexplate (broken tooth) and was about to bolt on a Mini High Torque starter but then noticed that the outer-most starter mount portion of the block was cracked and falling away from the block. So re-installed the O'Reilys starter I bought for it and just parked the truck.
I know I have a few things to fix here, but the main concern is that the current huge starter in there is only matching up to the flywheel gear halfway. That is to say that the bendix has wear marks on the front half of the gear and the flywheel is only wearing on the back half. It's like the Bendix isn't making full contact with the flexplate. The trouble is that the starter has no adjustment front to back. Only up and down.
Any ideas why the starter isn't matching up? Doesn't grind all the time. Only on occassion and with 20 or 30 people watching. Hahaha.