How to replace starter

Starter engages while idling, wont do it in drive or reverse, changed starter and ign switch same results. When its idling if you pull starter relay out it stops. Please help going broke.

About how much does a rebuilt starter cost for a
2000 chevy astro 2wd 6 cylinders

99 Chevy Astro van 4.3L I recently started having problems with starter and change it with a remanufacture unint from napa auto parts. It start ok but after two weeks it starts to stick and I need to replace it with another, I installed a new battery, there is power going to stater because I can here a clicking sound. Any sugestions like some thing else causing the starter to stick. Please advice thanks.

I remember some of the chevy starters needed to be shimmed. Are there any shims in the box the starter came in?

No none and wen I replaced the original it came with no shims

Well you need to check the flywheel teeth very good. Make sure there are no problems as far as damaged or folded over teeth. If that checks out ok I would clean up the battery grounds and maybe do a voltage drop test on the positive battery cable going from the battery to starter. You could have a bad cable or a poor connection. This is all it could really be

I just replaced the starter and its ok, one thing I notice is that after the first week, when I would crank engine will a while for engine to start. Any suggestions.

You might have just had a bad starter, It does happen. As far as a hard start its usually fuel or spark related, Have you done a tuneup or checked fuel pressure from pump?

I think thats my next move thanks

1998 Chevy Astro

I just replaced my starter in January and now it is doing the same thing as before. It starts right up sometimes and others it won't. I get no spark or anything.

The check engine light has never come on and the starter is still working because sometimes it will start. I dropped it at the mechanic tonight but I fear they will simply tell me that the new starter they put in back in january is faulty and possibly miss something more.

Engine Mechanical problem
1997 Chevy Astro 6 cyl Two Wheel Drive Automatic 324k miles

1997 Chevy Astro, with a 4.3L and 324k on it. I know it's high mileage, but it's a wheelchair van and my only option right now.
The starter on this van was already going out. It would engage and crank the engine about 1 out of every 10 turns of the key, on average. The rest of the time, just spinning freely.

So, the other day my wife ran completely out of fuel. She put some in (not sure how much). Then tryed to start the car, but now the starter is grinding very badly. So she has it towed home to me.

The tow truck driver tells me he saw a bolt under the van when he pulled it up onto his truck, and it's probably a starter mounting bolt, hence the starter grinding. After he leaves, I crawl under and sure enough, one of the mounting bolts has broken off. So I reach up and wiggle the starter to see how loose it was. Barely moved at all, but enough to cause a spark as the lead touched something.

So I replace the starter with a used one from a junkyard, but I break off the smallest of three posts on the solenoid (it was rusty, I swear). So I switch solenoids with the starter I just took off. All seemed well until when I reattach the negative battery cable, the starter motor kicks in. Oops! I crossed the wires. So I uncross them, and bolt it back together.

The new (to me) starter works great, it turns the engine over with no problems every time I turn the key. However, the van won't start. I put a gallon of gas in it, but still doesn't fire up. So I put four more gallons in it. Still nothing.

I sprayed some starter fluid into the intake. I know I'm not supposed to, but I wanted to know if it would fire, before replacing the fuel filter. It did, so I changed the fuel filter.

Still doesn't start. That's about where my experience ends, so. What should I try next? Did I do something when I crossed the wires?

But if I was able to get it to fire up using starter fluid, how could it be that the ignition is not getting current?