[52chevyred]

I had a similar problem on my starter, when I first got the motor. I took the starter to a "rebuild" place (the teeth on the starterbendix looked pretty worn) removed a "spacer" the previous owner had put on it and "no problems" since.

I did notice on the flywheel, when I had the motor out, some of the flywheel teeth were damaged, but not too bad. The motor had been in an "automatic" equipped car, so I put a new fly wheel on for my manual Trans.