"mike" <mikein562athotmail@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<fsZmc.49638$Ik.3564143@attbi_s53>...
> "Moopic" <moopic@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:20040507222452.10652.00000830@mb-m27.aol.com...
> > 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.

it happens all the time with aftermarket starters that the gear
moves out too far and slams into the flywheel.
Chip