From: Stu Ellis (stuellis@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 03:49:13 PST
The CUCV starters are a no shim. Mine had it stamped on the case.
Stu Ellis
Seatrade International
#603-437-1392
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian" <polaris650_92@yahoo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:24 PM
Subject: [MV] CUCV starter
> Hi,
> The starter on my 84' Blazer started to turn slow, so
> I took it off and brought it to a well known 80 year
> old man who has rebuilt starters from the beginning
> and had it rebuilt. When I put it back on, I did it
> the exact way in opposite that it came off, it had one
> big fat shim on it, so I put it back on. Anyways, I
> drove it as a daily driver for about 2 weeks before it
> started to squeal. It would squeal only about once
> every other week before it got worse. Eventually it
> did it all the time I couldn't even start it. I took
> it back off and brought it back to the shop along with
> the shim and he put on his coke-bottle glasses and
> examined the drive gear. The gear was stripped only
> on the end of the teeth, meaning that it had an
> unnessessary shim on it. He told me that GM has been
> known for poor starter alignment, and has cost them
> and the consumer a lot of money replacing flywheels
> and other related items. My starter might be factory
> shimmed or might have had some idiot in the military
> stick one in. The moral is, if you keep having
> starter problems, check the wear on the drive gear to
> make sure it is seating properly.
>
> Brian
>
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