Cascade Crew

[Kage87Z]

Initial info here:

I pulled the starter today, and took it apart.

There was nothing wrong with it as near as I could tell.

The bearings at either end of the armature spun freely, smoothly and noiselessly.

There were no shavings or particles anywhere. It was clean.

When I hooked up jumper cables to it, it snapped on, spun, and retracted when I lifted the jumper claw. It made no noise, did not hesitate, and started repeatedly.

It did, after a few minutes, get pretty hot, tho.

It acted like a normal starter in every respect.

It did not, however, have starter bolts. It has regular 3/8's bolts. And there is no way to hook up a bracket on the back end of the starter.

The starter looks just like this:

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Suggestions would be helpful.

[chevymad]

You can't see the inside of the bendix/starter drive, or take it apart. It will still make a horrible squeeling racket or ratcheting noise if its bad. It won't make the noise without a load on it. If the flywheel teeth are good, and its still making this noise, I'd say its the drive.