Starter grinding

[1955moose]

Well here's a dumb thought! You've swapped out 5 or is it 6 starters, a ring gear, but never changed the starter solenoid on firewall. Sure sounds like the starter Bendix drive is trying to engage, but something's pulling it back. They don't fail often, but do. Buy a quality one, like Oem Ford or equivalent. I'd also pull the starter that's in there, and have an assistant crank engine with a socket/ratchet and fully inspect all teeth on ring gear. If one of your five chewed up the teeth, your looking at dressing the teeth with a sharp file, or another ring gear. As far as the starter falling out, wow! Their 3 bolts holding starter in. Whatever mechanic left all three bolts loose must have been high on something! Let us know your results.

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[jasonmcc68]

Well here's a dumb thought! You've swapped out 5 or is it 6 starters, a ring gear, but never changed the starter solenoid on firewall. Sure sounds like the starter Bendix drive is trying to engage, but something's pulling it back. They don't fail often, but do. Buy a quality one, like Oem Ford or equivalent. I'd also pull the starter that's in there, and have an assistant crank engine with a socket/ratchet and fully inspect all teeth on ring gear. If one of your five chewed up the teeth, your looking at dressing the teeth with a sharp file, or another ring gear. As far as the starter falling out, wow! Their 3 bolts holding starter in. Whatever mechanic left all three bolts loose must have been high on something! Let us know your results.

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Sorry for not replying sooner on this. We ended up simultaneously replacing the battery, starter and flexplate all at the same time which fixed the problem completely or at least for the last 2 yrs which is longer than any of them have lasted before.

 

[Kareem Whitaker]

Price of the ring gear

 

[lbv150]

Price of the ring gear

OEM around $60 if you shop around, for the one on my '04. Just bought one yesterday. LOL

 

[JExpedition07]

Oof good luck with that job, I just replaced the Torque Converter and Starter on my 2007 and pulling the transmission out to access the converter/flex plate area was ALOT of work. Maybe it is easier to get the transmission off and separated on the older ones. My flex plate still looked great. On a side note my dads E-350 van made that ring gear noise for years due to an improperly aligned/shimmed starter, besides the noise he never had any problems.