[trularin]

Sounds like you have an automatic starter on a manual car or the other way around.

Common problem.

You do not say what trans you have ( or I missed it ) but if you have a manual trans, you need a starter for a manual trans. The teeth and nose are different.

The other problem is with the number of teeth and size of the ring gear. You need to have the correct flywheel for the engine to match the starter to. If you have a starter for 164 tooth ring gear and you have a 157 tooth ring on your flywheel, chances are you will spin the gear without engaging the ring gear.

Check the flywheel, starter and trans configuration.

I burned up a perfectly good high torque mini starter miss-matched.

Just my $0.02