flywheel ring gear

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It seems that I have knocked a tooth out of the ring gear on my flywheel. This seems to be an odd thing to happen its all factory parts and the factory has already told me the ring gear to replace it with. My question is has anyone seen this problem before and am I missing anything besides just replacing the ring gear and a visual inspection of the starter? Lee

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Thanks Paul: My setup is all factory so I think the starter is good as is we will see when I get it out. Lee

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I think Nigel may have hit on the truth. I had taken the Kinsler off for service work and when I went to restart it did pop a couple of times before all was well in start up land. Right after that is when I started having troubles with a blank spot on the starter, Of course when I rolled the car forward a few feet while in gear then the car would start as normal. Lee