Where is the starter located in a car
How to Replace a Starter in Your Car
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It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel
if your car does nothing when you turn the key, you might need a new starter, so
today I'm going to show you how to check out your starter and how to replace it
if it's bad, now if you turn your key and the engine doesn't crank over the first
thing to do is to jumpstart the car to see if you have a dead battery
but this battery is brand new, so I know it's not the battery, so the next thing
to do is to get a power tester and see if the starter is getting electricity
when you turn the key, now to check the power going to the starter first you
have to locate the starter, which in this case is under the car, so we'll Jack it up
and stick a jack stand so it doesn't fall on top of us, nobody wants to be
turned into a pancake and there's the starter on the engine where it bolts into
the transmission, what we want to find is a small power
wire the goes to the solenoid and here it is I pulled it off a solenoid, and I'm
going to connect our tester to it to see if it's getting power, now with
someone else turning the key in the ignition, we'll hook this tester up to
that wire and see if it has power, here we are connecting the tester to the
power and lo and behold it has 12 and a half volts of power, that
means that the start is getting electricity, but it's not doing anything
so the starter's got to be bad, we're going to change it out, but before we do that
we're going to disconnect one of the battery cables, so we don't fry anything
while we're working, we'll just remove the negative battery cable, then we can
safely unbolt the power wires that go to the starter and move them out of the way, and we
can remove the three bolts that hold the starter in place and then
the starter just comes right out, you might have to do a little bit of
wiggling but it'll eventually come right out
then get your shiny new starter and crawl back under to put it in, stick it
in and line up the holes to put the bolts in and make sure you put the bolts
on nice and snug and remember to put the electrical connectors back on and
tighten them up too, put the bolts on and get them nice and snug
and finish it off with a wrench so you know it's tight and now it's safe to
put the battery terminal back on because we're almost done, just get the terminal
put it back on and tighten it up, tighten it up and away we go, now we'll turn the
key and see what happens, it works, so the next time your starter goes out, why not
change it yourself and remember if you've got any car questions just visit
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