starter replacement
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From: Gone
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St. Jude Donor '03
Not too tough.
You will need to get the car up on jackstands, and disconnect the bettery.
If you have stock exhaust manifolds, you will need to unbolt the cats/H-pipe from the manifold flanges, and lower it down to gain access to the starter. The exhaust manifold can stay in place.
If you have LT headers, the pass. side header will likely need to come out, or at least unbolted from head and slid up and out of the way.
Remove the thick (red) positive cable from the starter, along with the 2 other smaller wires (gray and rust colored) that also connect to that same post. Remove the purple wire from the solenoid post.
Then remove the 2 bolts holding the starter in place, and it drops right out.
Install is reverse of what you disassembled. A competant mechanic should be able to do this in an hour or two easy. With headers, a bit longer.
You will need to get the car up on jackstands, and disconnect the bettery.
If you have stock exhaust manifolds, you will need to unbolt the cats/H-pipe from the manifold flanges, and lower it down to gain access to the starter. The exhaust manifold can stay in place.
If you have LT headers, the pass. side header will likely need to come out, or at least unbolted from head and slid up and out of the way.
Remove the thick (red) positive cable from the starter, along with the 2 other smaller wires (gray and rust colored) that also connect to that same post. Remove the purple wire from the solenoid post.
Then remove the 2 bolts holding the starter in place, and it drops right out.
Install is reverse of what you disassembled. A competant mechanic should be able to do this in an hour or two easy. With headers, a bit longer.
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From: Anthony TX
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St. Jude Donor '08
Be careful when reinstalling the starter to the engine. Use the correct torque. People have been known to break the block improperly torquing the starter back in. Also make sure that the wireing on the solenoid is clean and tight once your done.
Bill
Bill
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From: Dyer, IN
Have you covered all the basics in troubleshooting this issue? That's a lot of work if you don't know without a reasonable doubt that the starter is the issue.
Melting Slicks
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From: Nokomis FL
Do 1 last check before you start this. I'm having the no start issue on my '99 and after I checked everything I found out it was (is) the positive battery cable. I cut the boot off, cleaned it all up, reconnected it and off it went (goes). I returned the starter I bought and will change the cable soon.
