Starter grinding issue please please help me

[crfridah]

Okay so my old starter was bad so I decided to replace it I bought a used one and it worked fine with no issues... Then one day when I was driving the tranny seperated from the motor a little bit and after I fixed that my starter grinds really bad and most of the time won't start the car. I checked the teeth on the flywheel and the starter both look fine, I tried using washers to pull it away from the flywheel more that didn't work... Idk what to do I know the starter plate is the right one, I tested the starter and it comes out all the way with no problems, at first I thought it could be the wrong starter but before the tranny seperated it worked for a month with no problems I really don't know what to do now and this is driving me crazy as I can no longer drive the car... To go into better detail the starter grinds spins free grinds again then SOMETIMES starts but most of the time just grinds

 

[nodoze]

how do the teeth look on the flywheel and the starter? could one or the other be worn down? i ghave seen some starters just loose to much clearance

 

[pureinsanity]

I sounds like your flywheel might of got bent or the flywheel bolts came lose and your starter can not reach the fly wheel. If you could measure how far the flywheel sits inside the transmission where the starter would be then spin the flywheel 180 degreese and measure again. Then you should be able to see if your flywheel is bent or whats going on.