I have a 95 with 141k mikes and my freaking starter went out!!!!!!NOOOOOOOO
so I need to change it anyone have any good links on howtos?
also anyone that has changed a starter before and what problems did you run into (if any) thanks

 

Go to your local auto parts store and buy a manual for your car. Like a Haynes or Chilton. It will help you very much.

 

It is not too bad of a swap, I'll give the quick rundown from best of memory

1. FIRST UNHOOK YOUR BATTERY!!

2. Then, there are two bolts holding the starter to the transmission. A 17mm and a 14mm. Remove those and pull the starter out.

3. You are now left with a harness and big wire bolted on.
-Unclip the harness
-Take a 14mm socket and remove the big power wire off the starter

4. Reverse that for install.


Also, I don't know if people have as good as luck on starters as I do, but maybe its good or bad to buy from autozone. I bought one with lifetime warranty - and have had to take them up on that warranty more than once already... so maybe aftermarket is crap, but who knows as long as they keep giving me starters I'm not too upset.

 

www.motorvate.ca has a good write-up on it, its for fixing that grinding starter noise, but it still tells u how to take it out, good luck!

 

How much did autozone charge for the starter? What other places has them? Mine went out yesterday. I finally got it to work after hitting it, but did me no good since I flooded the engine while trying to start it so much :-(

 

my friend got one for like 50 bux for his altima, with the core exchange, i think he got it at discount/advance auto parts

 

I dont think we have advance out here in Cali. We have like autozone, pepboys, and napa. I'm sure there all the same. Thanks for the info.

 

maybe a few dollars difference, as long as u have the core exchange, it shouldnt be that much, all i know that ours is easier to change the the altimas =P

 

Aint that the truth, especially if you dont have all the stock intake crap ;-)

 

exactly! lol, i have to grease up my starter, since it makes that grinding noise, 2 bolts and its off, how easy can it get, finally something not so complicated in our engines

 

It ****es me off since I changed it about 3 yrs ago. I thought they lasted longer than that, but then again I dont know exaclty where my last one came from.

 

if you dont mind changin the starter go to autozone or any discount auto store and pick up a lifetime one for prob bout 100-150. If you want to change it once and know its going to last a long time go see nissan

 

yeah I fixed the starter everything went well it was about 139 for the starter and I had to return the bad one and they gave me 48 bucks back! but bad news I backed into a firehydrent about 7 hours later GREAT now I have a new thing to replace I will have pics of that soon its gonna be hard as Fu@k to fix I just know it

 

Oh man! I know how you feel....Last month I backed into a deer or he backed into me. Now, instead of changing the rear bumper, im saving up for a body kit. I checked to see if the poor thing was ok but that dude ran so fast into some bushes!