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Oct 11, 2006 | 08:44 PM

alleydawg6

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Oct 11, 2006 | 08:51 PM

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Oct 11, 2006 | 10:18 PM

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Am I being psychotic or do I remember an 18mm socket..

Not 17

Oct 11, 2006 | 10:58 PM

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man it's so easy i did it month ago and very glad with the results it cranks very silent and fast now. spend like 1.5 hour to get the job done

Oct 12, 2006 | 02:58 AM

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Am I being psychotic or do I remember an 18mm socket..

Not 17

nah man it's 17mm ...

Oct 12, 2006 | 02:59 AM

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man it's so easy i did it month ago and very glad with the results it cranks very silent and fast now. spend like 1.5 hour to get the job done

yea it freaking took me 2 hours and 15 minutes ... but I got it done ... lol ...

Oct 12, 2006 | 05:48 AM

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Takes less time to change the starter.

Oct 12, 2006 | 08:21 AM

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Would you mind PMing it to me, sir? Thanks!

Oct 12, 2006 | 09:00 AM

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Would you mind PMing it to me, sir? Thanks!

You've got PM ... let me know if it was helpful or not ... thanx

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Oct 12, 2006 | 09:02 AM

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Takes less time to change the starter.

Yea I guess ur right ... taking into consideration you don't have to take apart one clean it, wipe it down, degrease it, and grease it up again, and put it back together, and somehow get it back into the car ... lol ... yea changing the starter is a whole lot easier ....

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Oct 12, 2006 | 09:02 AM

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Putting the starter back together is a pain in the butt. I ended up just buying a new starter.

Oct 12, 2006 | 04:45 PM

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Can I get a PM write-up?

Oct 12, 2006 | 05:11 PM

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Can I get a PM write-up?

You've got PM

Oct 12, 2006 | 05:31 PM

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Awesome write up. How do you know if you need to regrease? I've got 150 K, and never touched the started. It has had occasional longer starts, but not too bad.

Oct 12, 2006 | 05:34 PM

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It will make a nasty sound, think of a gear spinning against a solid object.

Oct 12, 2006 | 05:42 PM

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It will make a nasty sound, think of a gear spinning against a solid object.

... mine was making a high pitched screeching sound

Oct 12, 2006 | 08:42 PM

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Pm please.

Oct 12, 2006 | 08:45 PM

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pm please

Oct 12, 2006 | 08:51 PM

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That write up is not very detail. At least I have spent some time on two major points:

1) The write up did not mention how to remove the whole (stock) air duct. The example in the write up is not stock air intake. I spent some time to figure out how to disassemble the air duct.

2) If you try to disassemble the starter completely, you'd better write down or take pictures at every step. It's PITA to put every small parts back together. All I have is one sheet of diagram of starter from FSM. Fortunately, I got some common senses andsome luck to reassemble the starter and it worked fine.

Oct 13, 2006 | 01:21 AM

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Sorry man I wasn't that detailed, being this was my first time doing this, I didn't know what I should write down or what I should leave to common sense ... also in my case I didn't take apart the complete starte like the person on Motorvate did, I didn't clean the so called "planetary gears" because I didn't want to get too far ahead of myself ... but if someone wants they can use the directions on motorvate in addition to mine ...

here's the link if anyone needs it .... http://www.motorvate.ca/mvp.php/516

Oct 13, 2006 | 01:25 AM

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PM please ....
already used some of that lithium grease on my hand to do the KS lol

Oct 13, 2006 | 05:59 AM

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PM please ....
already used some of that lithium grease on my hand to do the KS lol

You have PM ... yea man that Lithium grease is an all around good grease ... I substitute it for body lotion ....

Oct 13, 2006 | 10:28 AM

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Send me a copy please. I got the starter off once but never figured out how to disassemble it... Thanks!

Oct 13, 2006 | 10:32 AM

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Send me a copy please. I got the starter off once but never figured out how to disassemble it... Thanks!

You got PM ... let me know if this write up was helpful or not ... thanx Ali

Oct 13, 2006 | 10:33 AM

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would you please send me a PM? thanks.

Oct 13, 2006 | 11:59 AM

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would you please send me a PM? thanks.

You got PM ... please let me know if this was helpful or not ... thanx

Ali

Oct 13, 2006 | 12:01 PM

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would you please send me a PM? thanks.

hey man apparently you are not allowed to receive PMs .... most likely cause ur a newbie ... you have to have a certain amount of posts ... I can email it to you if u want ... this is the error I got:

hungurr has chosen not to receive private messages or may not be allowed to receive private messages. Therefore you may not send your message to him/her.

Oct 13, 2006 | 10:56 PM

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Pm please.

You've got PM ... let me know if it helped or not .... thanx

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Oct 13, 2006 | 10:56 PM

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pm please

You've got PM ... let me know if it was helpful or not ... thanx

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Oct 15, 2006 | 07:30 AM

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pm me too plz; thanks in advance

Oct 15, 2006 | 07:50 PM

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pm me too plz; thanks in advance

You got PM ... hopefully this helps you out man ... keep me updated ... thanx

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Oct 16, 2006 | 01:09 PM

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Oct 17, 2006 | 02:18 AM

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I think I'm gonna try regreasing my starter this weekend, can I get the PM? Thanks =)

Oct 17, 2006 | 06:45 AM

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I think I'm gonna try regreasing my starter this weekend, can I get the PM? Thanks =)

no problem man .... hopefully this write up helps ... keep me updated ... thanx

Ali

Oct 26, 2006 | 07:28 PM

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and to the top it goes ...

Oct 29, 2006 | 05:20 PM

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How did you opened the 2 bolts which connect starter to Engine. In my car these bolts are stuck and no matter what I try they are not moving a miliMeter.

Oct 29, 2006 | 08:33 PM

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How did you opened the 2 bolts which connect starter to Engine. In my car these bolts are stuck and no matter what I try they are not moving a miliMeter.

those two bolts require a lot of torque ... so if you have a long breaker bar that should work ... the first time i tried taking the bolts off, i wasn't able to, I got frustrated and walked away ... came back later determined to open them, and I did, although I felt like my arms were gonna fall off ... but i did it ... so just make sure ur using the right size/type of socket and try spraying something like wd-40 on them to help you out ... good luck

Ali

Dec 1, 2006 | 07:56 PM

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I re greased mine about 3 months ago and nots its starting to get a hard start. Its not the same noise it made because of the old-sticky grease. It sounds more like the engine is rev'ing right from the start as if i was holding in the gas.

Any idea?