Toyota Starter Problem?

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joemong

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whan dealing with starters I always go to the dealer.I have no faith in after market starters unless I rebuild it my self. PS I hope who ever did the starter the first time check to see that the fly wheel is good .
 
Hi,

I have a 1990 Toyota Celica 1.6L engine that has had 3 starters put in in the last 3 months. Each one, after about 3-4 weeks would not start. After I would drive a while and the engine would heat up, then I would try to start the car and nothing would happen. But when the car cools down, the engine would start. Napa tested the second starter and said it was good. Now I'm in Calif, before I was in Colorado, and it's doing it again. My mechanic says its the starter. Are there any other possibilities because this is getting crazy and expensive. The last couple of days, driving around town, it's started without incident. It's unpredictable and hard to show a mechanic when it will do it. Could all 3 starters have been bad? Napa doesn't think so. Please help.
 
Most likely you are missing a heat shield that goes between the starter and the exhaust. Possibly it was removed when the first starter was replaced. If the starter is exposed to too much heat, it won't go until the car cools down, but it may bench-test just fine.
 
Most likely you are missing a heat shield that goes between the starter and the exhaust. Possibly it was removed when the first starter was replaced. If the starter is exposed to too much heat, it won't go until the car cools down, but it may bench-test just fine.
 
Do you keep going to the same person to replace your starter because if you put it in slightly wrong it will go out in a matte of weeks like you said it did. And the Grinding noise is most definitely cause it was put in wrongg
 
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