starter motor noise?

[and1_e30]

hi my parters starter motor started making a noise when i changed the engine a few months ago i thought it was on the way out and today it died so i changed it for a new one and its making the same noise only when on!! originally the car was a 2.0 1988 model, and the person before changed it to a 2.5 1988 engine which died on the way back from buying it!! so i kindy took mine out of my 1991 2.5 and gave it to her, but kept the old gearbox as mine was on its way out. i bought the starter motor for the 1991 engine. (sorry if its too confusing i confuse myself sometimes!!)

any help would be much appreciated just want the noise to stop now then it will be perfect!!

cheers

jon

[Rav335uk]

Wrong starter for the flywheel.????

[and1_e30]

No it's the starter and flywheel from the newer engine I made sure that they were the same, the metal plate that's between the engine and gearbox is that the same thinkness between the years?

[and1_e30]

any help I'm stuck on what it could be?

[Brianmoooore]

Have you connected the wires correctly on the solenoid? Thick wire from battery and thick wire from alternator both go to the outer solenoid terminal.

[and1_e30]

yeh all wired up correctly starts and stops when it should just when it starts it makes a horrible noise :/

[jmc330i]

When you changed the engine, did you take the flywheel off for any reason?

[jimmyspeed]

what sort of noise is it a rapid clicking, or a chugging ?

[and1_e30]

nope o didn't even take the clutch off because i had a new clutch in it a few months before, thats what i can't understand it shouldn't make that noise! really frustrating

[jmc330i]

Ah ok, thats my idea out the window. Ive heard an M20 starter making odd noises due to someone thinking the metal plate that goes under the flywheel bolts was a spacer and so they put it between the crank and flywheel.

[and1_e30]

no shouldn't of thought i would have done that!! i don't want to take it out again but i might have too

[jmc330i]

If it didnt make any noises to begin with, Im not sure that will be it. The M20 I dealt with made the noise from the first turn of the starter.

[BenHar]

What sort of noise?

Mine makes a noise, too, but so has every starter I've ever listened to.

Ben

[zd3bx]

Unless it's a loud grinding noise right after the start-up, I doubt there's anything to worry about.

[and1_e30]

thing is the engine when it was in mine didn't make this noise when i changed the clutch in that car it made that noise once or twice and then stopped but as soon as i changed the engines over the noise was the same it was like it for like 6months till the starter motor packed up all of a sudden, then the new one does the same. its kind of a grinding noise but only when you turn the key as soon as the cars started then it stops and is fine?? really weird!! i don't think its doing any major harm seen as it was like that for ages just really annoying when starting up sounds horrendous!!

[spook]

Is your car hard to start?

[BenHar]

Record the noise and post it here.

Ben

[zd3bx]

thing is the engine when it was in mine didn't make this noise when i changed the clutch in that car it made that noise once or twice and then stopped but as soon as i changed the engines over the noise was the same it was like it for like 6months till the starter motor packed up all of a sudden, then the new one does the same. its kind of a grinding noise but only when you turn the key as soon as the cars started then it stops and is fine?? really weird!! i don't think its doing any major harm seen as it was like that for ages just really annoying when starting up sounds horrendous!!

That definitely sounds like a dodgy starter. Did you replace it with a new one or second hand?

Try getting a used one for cheap, fit it and test - plenty on ebay for 30 quid or check the classifieds here.