Should be fairly easy to remove the starter. This would allow you to check
the starter gear. Looking through the starter mounting point you should be
able to see the flywheel. Have someone rotate the engine by hand at the
crank and you should be able to visually inspect the teeth on the flywheel.
HTH
GBergthold
Having some issues starting my GLi. Occasionally, the car will not start
and I get a nice noise as I turn the key. The noise is something of a
grinding, but rather high pitched. My guess is the starter is not engaging
the flywheel and just spinning. Therefore, the noise is the starter
spinning. To solve this problem, I turn the key to the off position and
fiddle w/ the key, clutch, and shifter, in no particular order. Sometimes
this will fix the problem on the next turn of the key, sometimes not. It
can take up to 5 minutes b/f the starter and flywheel meet up properly and
she starts. When they do engage, she cranks for a while b/f kicking over.
My question is, is this just a bad starter that needs to be rebuilt? Or
has a tooth or two on the flywheel become stripped? Any way of checking
the
flywheel w/o tearing everything apart?
Any advice/experience would be appreciated,
Renard
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