Hello, I have a 91 blazer, which recently the starter started to grind. I
looked at it, and found it hanging under truck, by 1 loose bolt,  I tightend
the bolt that was  left, and it worked ok,  slight grind at times, I got
replacement bolts, and none fit in, I checked starter, still tight  with 1
bolt. but takes 3 times to start up usually, starter starts, then looses
grip, and  you can hear ity spin, let it slow down and stop, then try, try
again, I dont  drive it more than once or twice a week, otherwise my
girlfriend drives it, and she  has proven to me, time and time again, if its
gonna happen to anyone, it will happen to her when it comes to vehicals. So
I bought a new starter, and here it is sitiing in a box for 1/5 of what I
paid for blazer, I just would like to know if anyone might have some
helpfull advise on what I should do next. The starter seems to work well
when gears mesh together,  so I dont want to keep this new starter if I dont
have to, I have never grounded a flywheel  down far enough to slip gears in
my life, but that might be a possibility. my friend  has a 92 blazer, and
told me its a hell of a job to change a starter on this blazer, like have to
work around front suspension pieces. or jack up engine to fit in, and out...
I think I could drop it down easy enough. but if the starter gear looks ok,
what would that mean? flywheel forsure, or could the starter  malfunction
this way? I notice alot of oil  under engine  recently, " think oil plug was
loose, and tightend it"  I tryed taking off the inspection plate on tranny,
and bent my  wrench befor I could get the 3rd bolt off, someone  must have
used a 3/4" impact on it or something, cause I am not the weakest guy I
know. But anyways, oil seemed to leak out of the bolt holes for that
plate...?  would oil around a starter make it loose contact in cylinoid?  ,
I got 2 new factory bolts with new starter, old bolt isnt broke off in
block, any help or advice would be helpfull,   Thanks in advance for taking
the time to read this, Peace, Jim

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