I remember a thread before about this but can't find it now.

When it's -10C or lower my starter will jump out. It will give the truck about a half a roll, then jump out and whine down. Just before it stops whinin' down it catchs again with an abrupt stop when the teeth catch again. Sounds really bad when it does that. The second roll, it acts normal and fires right up. Only does this when below -10C, never does it when warmer. My starter was new back in October or November. Anybody else have this happen?

yea then the starter itself fried and locked up, replaced it lol

mine did that for the first time yesterday. Truck had sat out for 3 days @ -15. Cranked over slow, then kicked out like that, did the same again on next try. Waited a few minutes and truck started. I figure my batteries are getting weak in the cold. I'll load test them before my next trip where I can't plug in, and replace them if necessary. I hope it is batteries rather than starter. Sure didn't sound good. Can't be good for the ring gear either.

Bendix... you want to get that fixed while it's still a cheap part. As CD posted, once it gets real sloppy, it has a good chance of locking IN rather than OUT; when that happens, your starter gets to experience several million RPMs... LOL.

I hear it's a life-changing experience. Or starter-changing, at least.

annoying to change theres a 3rd hidden bolt on some of them, stupid, and will cause many expression words to be let out,

ROFL... you can always tell the quality of a man by the number of different expression words he can effectively utilize.

And make sure you put the third bolt back on when you're done... lots of starters have fallen off because people forgot that one!

i modified mine to run 3 bolts but the starter is now alot easier to remove, you can actually access the bolts all of them, and still hold it all in man

My starter is only a few months old. I'm gonna take it out and give it back to them.

Make sure you give it back to them good and hard... they like that better.

I replaced my starter today, glow plugs stopped working for some reason and I cooked the starter messing around.....

My starter is fried(The one I replaced last winter), it won't start even when plugged in(glowplugs died trying to start it one day), etc. Next week will be expensive.

we all love our starter it seems