"Moopic" <moopic@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I have a 1990 accord with ONLY 138000 miles . I changed the starter 3
years
> ago.
> I heard a "marble noise chatter" at idle and it subsides at high rpm . I
> searched around with my stephescope and found the cause. There are welds
which
> holds the ring type gear to the torque converter.

never heard of this before.