Whether you compass some electrical and mechanical skills and some tools encircling the abode, you can save almighty dollar by installing your Nissan Sentra's starter on your own. The mark of the starter Testament vary depending on the year and Engine. You may admit to stand the front aim of the Sentra up and crawl underneath, or you may solitary get to remove the air duct from above to access it. Nissan has placed many at variance motors into the Sentra over the agedness, so you may retain to consult the book to allot it. A favorable decree to get is the starter has to be near the transmission flywheel, if on top or below. Inception there and peep for electrical wires.
Instructions
Replace a Starter on a Nissan Sentra
1.3. Remove the negative battery cable from the negative battery terminal using a hand wrench or the ratchet and a socket once you've located the starter.4.
2. Position the Sentra where you extremity to in adjustment to remove and modify the starter. Provided you devoir to lift the front extremity, guide it up on the van ramps, utilize the parking brake and domicile a spin chock behind a rear tire. Otherwise, remove the air duct piping to access the starter from above and skip Step 4.
Set the starter. The two most regular places for the starter in a Nissan Sentra is below the air duct on top of the transmission (which requires removing the air duct piping from the air box to the throttle oppose) or underneath the Sentra on the low Chauffeur's side undercarriage, below the intake manifold between the firewall and engine where it meets the transmission. This would lack lifting the vehicle and crawling underneath to remove and change the starter.
Crawl under the Sentra (on a creeper, if you have one) with the tools and the new starter or go to the engine compartment to remove the starter.
5. Disconnect the wire to the starter by removing the nut that holds it onto the stud using the ratchet and a socket. Remove the upper and lower starter bolts holding the starter to the engine. Remove the starter.
6. Install the new starter and replace the upper and lower starter bolts to secure it to the engine. Replace the starter electrical connection wire and tighten the nut with the ratchet and a socket. Reattach the negative battery cable to the negative battery terminal and tighten using a hand wrench or the ratchet and a socket. Remove the wheel chock and lower the Sentra, or replace the air duct piping in the engine compartment.
