Toyota Camry: 87 Camry grinding noise when starting

>My 87 Camry has the grinding noise sometimes when I try to start it.
 

I waited on mine till it got very very bad. Which took two years .( YMMV )
I replaced mine the same time when i took out the transmissions.

When it got really bad i have to get out of the car and rocked the car back and
forth couple times till the flywheel engaged.
Really it is not a flywheel rather it lookslike a big ring with gears around it
.. and it is bolted to flywheel . I forgot what it is called.

Sofjan Mustopoh

"Andy Arhelger" <com> wrote in message
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Andy,
You don't want to continue spinning the starter gear against the flywheel
gear un-engaged. It will chew up the flywheel gear until it has to be
replaced, requiring pulling the transaxle assembly to r&r. If it's only made
the grinding noise a couple or just a few times, chances are the flywheel
gear is still good and if you change the starter now it will solve your
problems.

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Hope This Helps,
davidj92

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:34:28 -0600, "davidj92"
<com> wrote:
 


We waited on our 88 Camry (until it was taking about 10 times to
start)...it ended up costing about $700 to get fixed (starter,
flywheel, labor, etc).


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