you don't need to shim a stock starter. The mounting block is manufactured to be mounted and done with.

Are the teeth on the starter chewed? If so it could be hitting that point and slipping. It also sounds like an arc of some sort is hapeening when your turning it over.

Just bolt it up and have someone turn it over with you under it with the inspection (tranny) plate off. This will allow you to see what is going on when it engages.

 

I may do that. I can pull the pcm batt. fuse and that won't let it actually try to fire up right?

 

Right.


On a side note.....if the starter is in some way bad I'm kinda local and I'll give you the extra one I have for the cost of gas to meet you somewhere.

 

Any luck last night Chevycobb. I know you want to drive it soon!

 

nah didn't have a chance. too many wrecks in atlanta so traffic was worse than it usually is. try again tonight. I have next week off so I was looking forward to driving this thing soon

 

I can't believe it...was it really this simple?? the cable for the theft dterent relay that goes to the starter some how got the insulation split and was touching the pcm ground. cut...splice...moved the pcm ground further away just in case. turned the key and starter turned the motor no problem(had pcm batt fuse pulled). now I just gotta put the exhaust back together and clean up tools to try and fire this thing up soon

 

Glad you got it worked out, it's always the little things that kill you...

 

luckily it really was that simple. your vid helped out a lot cause mine was making the same noise. camaroz28.com has really saved my *** on this project.