ive got a S4 TII in an 84 gsl, gsl transmission and starter, engine has NA flywheel. have had same problem on two separate transmission starter combinations.



when i turn the key and the car is cold the starter sounds like its throwing, it spins, but wont turn the engine, just whirs uselessly. every so often itll grind a bit, eventually it starts the car. when the car is warm, say after running for 10 minits, its fine until cold again. works everytime, fires right up warm, misses an whirs cold. as i said two separate starters n transmissions, same result. any ideas?

please help if you can.

ill take shots in the dark, wild guesses, clueless ramblings, anything at this point to get this figured out its driving me nuts. i cant understand how its possible that it can take near 10 minits of useless spinning before turning the engine cold and no problems whatsoever warm.

id think it was the starter except ive run two different starters on it, both with the same result, and the starter its got on it now came straight off a car that i never had any start problems with. are there subtle differences in some series starters or flywheels? far as i know theres NA an then turbo an auto an thier respective starters and thats about that.

this is a bit of a pain in the ass cuz the only time i have trouble is when i need to get to work in the morning and i gotta leave 10 minits early in case the starter is in a bad mood, and then again when i wanna go home an im usually in a bad mood :P not to mention i put tooo much time money an effort into making this thing look good and run well to sit thru the embarassment of spinnin the starter a hundred times to start it.