flywheel backwards?

[BB BELLA]

How I would check it! put some painters tape on the flexplate all along the area the starter will engage, lay the tape on so it's sticking out 1/4" past the teeth. Install the starter and attempt to start! remove starter and check witness marks on tape to see where bendix is hitting it or missing it completely! might give some answers!

 

[EccentricMagpies]

How I would check it! put some painters tape on the flexplate all along the area the starter will engage, lay the tape on so it's sticking out 1/4" past the teeth. Install the starter and attempt to start! remove starter and check witness marks on tape to see where bendix is hitting it or missing it completely! might give some answers!

That's a good idea once i determine it actually does extend.

 

[biomedtechguy]

How I would check it! put some painters tape on the flexplate all along the area the starter will engage, lay the tape on so it's sticking out 1/4" past the teeth. Install the starter and attempt to start! remove starter and check witness marks on tape to see where bendix is hitting it or missing it completely! might give some answers!

More BRAINS, less BACK...
GREAT idea!

 

[dsd1967]

If you’re going as far as to remove the starter to do any under car testing you may as well just take it to the local auto parts store and have them test it.
If its bad then you only take it out and reinstall once. You can buy a new starter while you’re there.

 

[67Charger]

I know that some guys I worked with put the flex plate on an industrial purposed SBC on backwards and it worked fine (PTO, no converter), but the starter teeth only reached it by about 1/8". Very hard on ring gears and starter teeth until I pointed out their screw up.

 

[Mick56]

Sounds like a bad Bendix.

 

[BSB67]

If you’re going as far as to remove the starter to do any under car testing you may as well just take it to the local auto parts store and have them test it.
If its bad then you only take it out and reinstall once. You can buy a new starter while you’re there.

Exactly. Not sure how all the R&R is the smart and easy way.

 

[miller]

I always bench test mine. A quick measurement, from the starter mount pad, to the ring gear, tells ya how far the bendix needs to kick out. I measure mine on the bench.
In the 'olden days' , depending on the starter, you could just replace the bendix.

 

[EccentricMagpies]

Thanks everyone!
I removed it... tested it outside and didn't see an issue and mounted it back and now it turns over?
The only thing i can think of is that it wasn't seated completely when I re-installed it after i dropped the headers in.

 

[BB BELLA]

sometimes they just want you to apply more elbow grease! good to hear it's working!