Are there teeth on the flywheel at that point?
Have you tried turning the engine a little by hand?

Larry A.

William Greenamyer wrote:

>Here is one that I am sure most of you haven't herd before but I hope
>someone can help.  As you know, I have been working on the flanges for the
>exhaust system on my 84GL.  Got everything all done and back together.  No
>leaks.  It should pass smog without a problem.  Went to start it and all I
>got was starter motor noise.  Motor was not under load.  Thought it might be
>the battery being low since the van sat in the driveway for several weeks.
>Charged the battery over night.  Good voltage, everything ready and tried to
>start her.  Same thing.  Figured it must be the starter.  This one has a
>couple years (about 70-80K miles on the van) so I figured it probably had
>oil and stuff in it so I swapped it out with a starter I had rebuilt.  Ready
>to go again and the same thing.  I get the starter motor and no engaging the
>flywheel.  Checked the old starter off another battery and sure enough,
>everything still works.  Got good voltage to the starter and the special low
>voltage relay in the system.  Anyone got an idea as to why these starters
>are not engaging the flywheel?
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>William
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