Sword

Replaced my starter and it fires right up but I had a really loud noise that I thought was my belt like a pulley going bad, I tracked it down to my starter. It's a loud rough sound. It's not the squeal of when you try to crank while it's already going. This is a DB electric starter. I did not shim some say you need to shim.

cruiser54

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Sword

Hey yeah should have added that. Its a sotck 1996 xj. Ive changed 2 starters on 2001s and never shimmed. Is shimming at all normal, is it something else, a bad part? Listening to some vids sounds like the gear might not be fully retracting. There is a very fast 'tick' to the rough sound. Anyway, one guy recommended I loosen the bolts slightly, any chance this works? Or whats next step.

cruiser54

Shimming is only on 4 cylinders and old V6s.

I'm betting you have a defective starter.