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Starter for chevy 350, PLEASE HELP

Hi, I am backyard mechanic, I put new haedgaskets on neighbors truck, now car wont start, I heard what I thought was starter hitting flexplate and not it groves, this could happened by my leveraging the exhaust out of the way to get to head lower head bolts. I pulled the starter out of the way and cranked it just to see if starter was bad, it moves the gears move out as expected but the rotation is only minimal. My question is shouldn't the starter gears rotate at least one or two full turns or does it need back pressure from flexplate to rotate that much. I am not sure what to do and dont want to have to buy new starter if not needed, I have diagoned it as needing a new starter, but I am a novice. Please help John

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34coupe
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If you actuate the starter while it is not engaging a flywheel, it should spin up like crazy. If yours isn't, then yank it out of there and have it checked at a starter shop.

Remember that you have shims on GM products that position the starter correctly with respect to the flywheel. Don't remove and lose those shims as you will need them for reassembly.

Not likely you hurt anything by moderate levering, unless you put a king kong force on the starter.

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<HLS

Thank you so much, I knew I was not crazy. God Bless You and yours. John

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34coupe

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Unless it's not touching the engine block or frame while testing. Electric motors work best with a ground path back to the battery. Did you bolt the battery ground cable back onto the engine? Did you re-attach the braided ground strap (usually rear of head to firewall)?

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MasterBlaster

"MasterBlaster" Electric motors work best with a ground path back to the battery.

If it the ground path is not there, it is pretty hard to actuate the starter ;>) But your point is well taken to make sure the ground is intact.

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<HLS

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