Alright this is the weirdest thing that anyone in my town has ever heard of. No one I’ve talked to can figure out what the problem is. If anyone has an idea what wrong email me at endevor100@hotmail.com.

My truck is an 86 Chevy K10 Scottsdale long bed with a 383-stroker engine. There’s a shift kit on the transmission, and it has 4WD, i cant think of any other info so ill move on.

Ok my starter makes a sound like the solenoid isn’t working right, it sounds like the gear is turning but its not engaging at all. I replaced the flywheel, starter (three times), starter solenoid (four times), positive battery cable, negative battery cable, and negative battery grounds on both the block and the frame. This is where it gets really weird if I take the starter out, mess with it and put it back in, it starts right up 4 or 5 times, then goes back to making the same noise again and not engaging. Once again if anyone has any idea what’s going on please email me cause I’ve asked every mechanic I know about this and have come up dry.

My first question is are you running block hugeing headers for some reason? Question two do you have a heat shield on your starter? If not your exhaust maybe heating up your starter. It kinda sounds like what happened on my buddy's 76' GMC 3/4 ton with a 454. My tech. prof. from college told me another way of reducing the amount of voltage to the starter which my save the life of the starter but it requires using some ford part      Oh and by the way I also have a 1986 Chevy Scottsdale but my has a creat 350 and it is on its second creat 700R4, I kinda blew up the first one on the freeway with in two weeks of purchase. Wrong TV cable and shadered the plantary gear doh!    

Chevy engines with headers are known for hot start problems, but if it's not heat related. It sounds like you may need to shim your starter.  Shims go between the engine block and the starter and changes the alignment of the starter to ring gear on the flywheel, if the starter is misaligned it won't mesh with the flywheel properly.