Smoking from the tranny hole?? Starter toast?

[badvdub at gmail.com (Parker Wulf)]

sounds like the starter is fryed to me, and the smoke from it can only
escape from tranny hole.
 Removel/replace of starter is in your near future my son.
 Parker

 On 11/13/05, Jeff Toomasson <area53@validpath.com> wrote:
>
> gawd - that intro could be twisted several ways... :D
>
> Anyway, I sure many of you have had the symptom where you're cranking and
> cranking and cranking (though I really only remember having this happen on
> a
> mk1...) and then it feels like the starter's being choked -> "rrrrtt,
> rrrtttt" (it's terrible trying to phoneticize (is that even a word?) a
> sounds
> that the car is making....)
>
> Well after several rounds of cranking, I notice smoke coming from the
> tranny
> plug hole. At first, my mind went to the clutch, but the PO supposed
> installed
> a new one right before I bought it (couldn't be more than 1000 miles on
> it).
> And mechanically it doesn't make a lot of sense. Another few rounds of
> cranking finally brought on what sounded like a gnawing of gears. I gave
> up
> because I had to get ready to spend the afternoon w/ the family.
>
> Does anybody have a similar experience where it _wasn't_ the starter? I
> have
> a small window to work on cars tomorrow and I'd much prefer to install my
> CD/mp3 player into the M5 rather than troubleshoot this only to find out
> it
> much more than just the starter...
>
> Hope everyone's having a good weekend!
>
> Thx, JT
>
>
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