Originally Posted by zipper06
It's to late to tell now but when you change out the starter and flywheel and install new ones. When you bolt them on pull the starter gear into the flywheel with a screw driver. When the teeth are engaged you should have a gap on the engaged teeth that you can fit tightly a 1/8 inch rod into. If it's too tight to do this you need to shim the starter down until it fit's snug, that will give you the proper engagment, it it's a GM type starter, Fords are different.
JMO
Zip.
i did this very same thing with my 632ci 2 weeks ago..( didn't have the 1/8 pin to double check) but i eye balled it and it was about that....i ended up having to shim starter down a good bit......i use needle nose pleirs and pulled out the starter gear into the flywheel and looked at it good...keep shiming and checking until the gear start gear pulles into the fly wheel with no issues...you can lay on your back and see how far the starter teeth falls into the fly wheel...as zip said about 1/8 is about right...
this can be time consuming if you do not get luckey off the start but will be well worth your time.
Brian