s13 grinding noise / wont start

[TonyTunes]

I was on my way to work and decided to drive the 240 today. I hopped in and went to start it and I got a really nasty grinding noise. Clutch was pressed in. When I release clutch and turn the key the engine trys to engage the car to move forward but fails. Car will not turn over I just keep getting the nasty grinding noise. I tapped the starter with no results. Please tell me this is just a starter not a flywheel. It has a fairly new exedy stage 2 clutch and flywheel so I doubt its that. Any input?

[TonyTunes]

I just took off the starter, reached inside the hole where it meets the flywheel and the flywheel is loose!!!! I can literally wiggle it by hand. I read online there is a way to tighten them without dropping the tranny? HOW?!

[kashira kureijii]

I can literally wiggle it by hand. I read online there is a way to tighten them without dropping the tranny? HOW?!

lol magic......
heres the recipe to tighten the flywheel bolts without dropping the tranny:

2 unspoiled virgins sacrificed over the same pile of dead ferrets

1 full gallon of e cigarrete fluid.

A random box of chevy parts ( full LS engine is even better)

multiple hoonigan stickers.

10 gallons of kerosene

mix thoroughly and park car on top

Crawl underneath car and take the driveline, tranny mount, and bellhousing bolts off

Take your zebra shift boot off in cab

Unhook wires and clutch hose, drop the tranny

Stick your member into pilot bearing hole and have someone turn the engine over

This should tighten the flywheel bolts

[ZaK687]

Gotta drop the trans, leave the drive shaft in the trans so you don't have to refill the gear oil, do as much as you can while you have it off. It's not difficult if you have two jacks and friend to help out. I managed to do it in a small driveway on my own

[TonyTunes]

lol magic......
heres the recipe to tighten the flywheel bolts without dropping the tranny:

2 unspoiled virgins sacrificed over the same pile of dead ferrets

1 full gallon of e cigarrete fluid.

A random box of chevy parts ( full LS engine is even better)

multiple hoonigan stickers.

10 gallons of kerosene

mix thoroughly and park car on top

Crawl underneath car and take the driveline, tranny mount, and bellhousing bolts off

Take your zebra shift boot off in cab

Unhook wires and clutch hose, drop the tranny

Stick your member into pilot bearing hole and have someone turn the engine over

This should tighten the flywheel bolts


why....just why? :rimshot:

[cotbu]

See the whole procedure i was teaching, was just 1 unsullied!

Are you wiggling the flywheel or the pressure plate?

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[TonyTunes]

The flywheel is whats moving

[ZaK687]

went and helped out, turns out he has a fidanza flywheel and the bolts holding the gear that the starter meshes into broke off. lol
the part that was wiggling was literally the gear along the circumference of the flywheel. apparently most people recommend welding the gear to the flywheel itself as opposed to the method that fidanza used which was 3 really wimpy screws which broke in this situation.

[TonyTunes]

Big thanks to my brotha above me for coming by and helping. As he said, the screws broke and the flywheel was spinning freely on the gear. I read online this is very common for fidanza flywheels and they recommend spot welding it in a few spots BEFORE putting it on the car to prevent this. I am going to spot weld the flywheel and also put some epoxy between where the flywheel comes together with the gear for some extra insurance it will stay together. Anyone object? Seems like this should be fine. I have someone who welds for a living doing this and I trust his work


EDIT- Both the flywheel and clutch looked perfect. No visible damage at all. Car recently had clutch replaced with exedy stage 2 so there is a ton of life left.