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    Hello all! New member here, i am having trouble figuring out a noise from my car. The sound sounds like if a metal fan blade was barely touching something else metallic and only does it when the passenger side is elevated or going around a right turn, ive checked all the bearings in the pulley's and checked that nothing was at all touching them, its not the power steering pump or the water pump, it has new belts and all fluids are good. It honestly sounds like its coming from the center of the engine but ive been underneath and cannot find whats making the noise. Thanks in advance! P.S. Probably should add that it's a 2007 Grand Prix GT S/C
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    this will sound off the wall, but if it could be the starter gear being loose and when you take a turn it slides out and touches the flex. seen vids of this, its pretty loud.

    if you take the starter off and the gear just slides out with ease, thats the issue. it should be held back with a spring type of set up. and you should have to pry it out to make it move.

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    Thank you for the reply, i did read that somewhere but when making a right turn wouldn't it go away from the flex plate?
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    pretty sure a right turn will make it come out and hit the flex. flex is on the driver side, and the starter nose points to the same side.

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    well im replacing a hub assembly among other things tomorrow so ill pop it off, is it pretty straight forward to take the starter off?
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    take the plastic cover off the bottom of the tranny a few 10 mm bolts, then the starter is two bolts. you can even leave the wires hooked up to it to check it. take the neg cable off the battery tho. dont need a spark show if the starter or a wrench grounds the pos stud out.

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    oh ok gotcha, sounds alot easier than replacing the timing cover in the winter this past year lol
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    by leaps and bounds easier lol

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    Thank you sir, i really appreciate it!
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    Wow that's deep bro, makes sense but damn, whoever made that connection either had to have replaced the starter when it eventually failed and just then realized the noise went away lol probably marched right over to his scrap pile to inspect the old one.
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