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Triumpth AT LAST! The car finally runs.

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boss351

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Okay, I went with all your suggestions on my squealing/grinding noise. I looked between the motor and block plate and saw my pinion of the starter. It looked like it was still slightly meshed with the flywheel. Pulled the starter. Sure enough the end of the pinion was wasted. Took the starter back to napa. They pulled another from the back, and it had a shorter snout then the one I had. Turns out I had the wrong starter. Put the new starter in, and other then a gas leak on the return side she fired right up... NO NOISE. I only ran it for about 20 seconds due to the gas leak. Will fix that tomorrow and post a video of it running..... 11 years in the making and finally it makes noise on its own... other then me sitting in the drivers seat making car noises.

Things are beginning to look up.
 
Congrats. on getting it running. That also makes for a great christmas present. I know I had a huge sheet eatin grin on my face when I got mine running after 6 years. I wish we could have gotten pics. of our faces when we heard them run for the first time. Now get us pics. You know how we love pics.
 
Sounds like you ran into the classic starter problem for Mustangs. It seems that all parts catalogs have the manual and automagic versions of the starter reversed.
 
Man, I love it when I'm right!!!! :ecit

Seriously, congratulations. Obviously, some of us have already traveled the road you did, which is why your solution so easily came to mind.
 
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