starter differences

[pensacola]

I recently put a new starter on my boat and now its grinding the flywheel. Its a 1999 bayliner with a 5.0 mercruiser. Arco gave me a 30470 starter. When I look on mercury parts it says I need a 30433 starter. Is there a different bendix on these two starters that would make it not mesh right with the flywheel?

 

[Don S]

Re: starter differences

What's your engine serial number?

 

[pensacola]

Re: starter differences

Its 0L084499

 

[pensacola]

Re: starter differences

Thank you so much for taking the time to help me with this. I want to use my boat sooo bad and it keeps giving me one problem after another. It did this when I first bought the boat and I had to have the motor pulled and the flywheel replaced. Then when we got it back together it was still grinding. We shimmed it and it worked fine for almost a year. Then I replace the starter and its doing it again no matter how we shim it.

 

[Fishermark]

Re: starter differences

I don't know if you have the right starter or not, but I know it is common to need to use the bracket on the end of the starter to help keep it in place. It 's hard to describe if you don't know what I'm talking about - but it bolts onto the end of the starter then onto the side of the block. I had a truck do the same thing - the bracket solved the problem.

 

[pensacola]

Re: starter differences

I have heard about that but I can't find anywhere on the starter or block where it would bolt on to.

 

[Coors]

Re: starter differences

there is usually a 5/16 stud on the back of the starter, and a 3/8 hole in the side of the block.
New kids in dealer parts can't look it up- I had to make my own.

 

[pensacola]

Re: starter differences

Do they sell them anywhere online or something? Cause if I try and make one it would probably suck.

 

[Fishermark]

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I went out and took a picture of the one on my car:

 

[pensacola]

Re: starter differences

Wow man you are great. Thank you for doing that. You made that yourself? It looks like its made of 1/8" thick steel.
Bent on a 90 degree angle then drilled out.

 

[Fishermark]

Re: starter differences

Did I make it? No, that is a GM part. You can buy one from your GM dealer. IF you can find a parts guy that can look it up without knowing an exactmodel, make and year.

I bought that one back in the early eighties - it was a common item on small block Chevy trucks of the vintage.

 

[pensacola]

Re: starter differences

My bad it was coors that said he made one.

 

[Don S]

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I'm not sure the 99 model even had a place for the bracket, and it wasn't a normal part for the Mercruiser. But what about the bolts. If they fit real sloppy in the starter, that could cause your problem. New bolts should always be used with a new starter, and ARCO has them. They are knurled where they fit in the starter housing to keep them from moving around.

 

[pensacola]

Re: starter differences

Yeah I used the new bolts that came with the starter and it bent them.

 

[pensacola]

Re: starter differences

Arco told me that those two part numbers are the same starter. How can they be the same starters with different part numbers?

 

[Don S]

Re: starter differences

The nose piece is probably the same, just a different motor attached to all of it. More rpm, more power, there is always OEM if all else fails. Probably cheaper to.