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So my smart friend suggested I take off the starter motor to have a look at the flywheel before I drop the Trans, pulled the starter off and found that it wasn't fully disengaging from the flywheel
And how did you determine this? It's looks disengaged in the picture.
Here is a new starter...unless the angle is wrong it looks the same as yours.