oftenly rough starting noise

[Nacho-RT74]

Hi ppl... some times when I starts the engine ( cold ) I heard some rough-grinding-scratching metal noise, JUTS WHILE STARTER MOTOR makes the turn to start. My engine has a practically perfect starts on with just one or two, maybe three turns starter motor with engine cold. Then everything is normal, except some times I heard tappets sound for 2 seconds or less that looks are dischaged on that moment, but the tappet noise looks a bad quality oil that on an oil shop added when changed.

I can't say if is related with starter motor or inside the engine, because when sounds I notice also how engine   looks to be pushed to spining rotation side.

Sounds weird... doesn't ?

[tan top]

might be a few things  but if it is only when turning the key to start it might be a chipped /worn teeth on the starter ring gear on the torque converter  , to check this remove the starter  and look for any damaged teeth , by rotating the crank by hand , it only needs 2-3 teeth to be  damaged to give this problem   could even be a real  loose starter motor, it is hard to diagnose a sound unless you hear it  1st hand

[Chryco Psycho]

the starter could be too close to the ring gear too which could require offset dowel piuns to correct

[myk]

So, the starter is adjustable in its location then?  I just replaced my starter a coupla' weeks ago and now I've got grinding every once in a while, especially on a restart with a hot engine; I did not have any problems with the previous starter...

[Chryco Psycho]

the starter is not really adjsutable , there is a slight amount of play , you need to correct the whole trans to engine alignment sometimes with offset dowel pins