Quote Originally Posted by cgw3 View Post
I have thought about this. with my bellhousing off, I was able to look at gap between flywheel and starter drive gear, there is a very small gap, but you can see light between it. Is this something that you were able to see without turning flywheel? or did it only expose itself when you turned? also, was this something that may only hang up right after its been cranked? but spring may work itself back into place as it sits?
On mine the starter drive would slide out and the flywheel / flexplate would tap it and push it back into the starter. the running engine vibration would then shake the bendix back out until it was tapped by the flywheel again.. rinse and repeat... I only found it while turning the flywheel/flexplate by hand. And I noticed the clearance disappeared between the two gears.