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Thread: Starter Grind: Flex plate Tooth / Starter or Battery?
          
   
   

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  1. 07-07-2016 09:47 AM #1
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    If you don't have the support strap that goes from the starter to the block the starter will loosen up on occasion. You could have damaged teeth on the flywheel/flexplate and the bendix.
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    Is there any chance its just damaged teeth on the bendix and not the flexplate?
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