sb Chev. starter noise

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Originally Posted by Paul Merolla

Also, don't count out the possibility that the starter gear could be too far away from the ring gear. I ran into that on my street car - for years, it sounded like a cat got its tail stuck in there, but no amount of shimming would cure it. I finally got fed up and took a good hard look...only the ends of the teeth were meshing. Ended up filing down the aluminum on the starter. Sounds great now.

Paul, most of the better made racing starters had a washer/shim between the alum block and the starter motor. If you removed it then this would be rectified. I had a cheaper one and had to machine the alum mounting block also. This was for my Buick so I thought it was just a Buick thing. lol