1 /5 Alison Wild: After $1400+ for starter/fly wheel and tune up new flywheel and new starter are chewed up, Sam the owner hung up on me and is blocking my calls because I asked for partial refund. Mechanic (Nick) tried sending me away with grinding metal noises and said my trans case was warped.i pulled the invoice from repair four years ago with the starter part number, he ordered the starter that had worked four years on trans case welded repair. After he installed the, noise was better but but every third start the flywheel and starter gridded. Also could NOT set the timing after replacing plugs wires distributor. WHAT? Said it was nothing he could fix and I needed a new transmission. Wish I had filmed him drilling out the threads on the starter housing and noise it made and not being able to set timing. Next mechanic at a different shop set timing in five minutes, replaced the starter again but said flywheel is toast. The three previous starters were all wrong and likely the wrong flywheel too...btw is a 78 Ford not rocket science
