I have been having problems with bending my starter bolts and have also chipped teeth off 2 ring gears and smashed the Bendix gear on 1 starter. Before all this started to happen I had removed the inlet manifold. When it was replaced the rotor shaft must have been set incorrectly. After recently checking the timing I found when piston #1 was set to TDC the rotor was pointing to point #4 on the distributor!!! I have now repositioned the rotor to point at #1 on the distributor. Before I install my 3rd new starter and 2nd new ring gear could someone confirm that this was probably the reason for me smashing ring gears and starters? I did manage to get the motor started a couple of times so don't understand how this was possible with the timing so far out???