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Originally Posted by jpeaslee
I've been a bit dead on the forums lately. Haven't had much exciting going on with the Runner over the last year. It usually only gets driven once or twice a week.
Over the winter, i started getting this intermittent grinding noise on startup. It'll start like normal, but immediately after it turns over and starts, there will be a grinding noise that might last a half a second. I'm guessing it's the starter. About 2 years ago I did rebuild it due to the plunger sticking, but didn't have any problem with it until maybe 4 months ago. It doesn't seem to happen as much when I've been driving it more, but that isn't exactly a scientific observation. Any thoughts on what it might be?
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I just recently had something similar happen to me, but intermittently. When I would start the car, it would start fine, but a loud screeching/metal scraping sound would occur for like 1/2 a second. It turned out to be the flywheel scraping against a loose bolt on the steering pulley. The shop found it and tightened the bolt and never heard it again.