Transform a Starter on a 1992 Saturn SL2
Release the car's emergency brake. Remove the tape from the negative battery cable, and secure it back to its post on the battery. Shut the hood, and start your engine to make sure the new starter functions correctly. Provided the Driving-wheel gear fails to engage the flywheel on the engine, your motorcar won't launch at all. Replacing the starter on your SL2 can be done equitable Homewards. The starter is mounted at the rear of the transmission process, on the passenger side, near the oil filter. This repair should booty you 30 to 45 minutes to determine yourself.
Instructions
Removal
1. Lift the hood on your SL2, and fix the battery. Loosen and remove the brunet (denial) cable from its display with a socket wrench. For safety purposes, wrap the metal terminal on the cable with electrical tape. Cook definite, before you authorization the cable unattended, that it's not in manage contact with any other metal in the engine earth.
2. Practice the emergency brake. Lift the machine with your jack on the passenger frame against, aloof extreme the front tire. Country your jack stand into position slightly left of the vehivle jack. Lift the collar arm on the jack stand until it makes plentiful contact on the frame condemn. Effect not remove your automobile jack; sufferance it in deposit for additional stability.
3. Lay on your safety glasses, and slide under the van mind early. Your starter has a protective shield over it, fabricated of plastic. Remove the shield by pulling outside the plastic push pin holding it in berth with a span of pliers. As you lower the shield elsewhere from the starter, dirt may cause to Blop onto you, care for your mouth closed.
4. Tag Everyone of the solenoid's wires with frosted painters' tape. Dash off sure that you clearly label the wires. Labels like "Wire 1 and Wire 2" may cause you confusion during installation. Instead, you could use "Left Red and Right Black". Remove both nuts holding the solenoid's wires in place. Slide the wires off their studs, and temporarily tuck them out of your way.
5. Remove the starter's top mounting bolt with an obstruction wrench. Support the starter with your free hand, and slowly remove the bottom mounting bolt. Tilt the starter vertically, and lower it down using both hands, from its position.
Installation
6. Turn the starter vertically, and raise it back up into its original mounting position. Support the starter with one hand and begin threading each of the starter's retaining bolts with your free hand. Set your 3/8-inch-drive torque wrench to 27 foot-pounds and completely tighten the bottom retaining bolt. Attach a flexible socket wrench extension to the torque wrench and fully tighten your starter's top mounting bolt.
7. Place both of the solenoid's wires back on their correct studs, and thread both nuts by hand until their snug. Set your 1/4-inch drive torque wrench to 89 inch-pounds and tighten the positive wire. Reset the torque wrench to 44 inch-pounds and secure the second wire to the solenoid. Remove the painters' tape from both solenoid wires.
8. Return the protective shield to its mounting position on your starter. Secure the shield by reinstalling its push pin. You won't need to use the pliers again. Just push down on the pin with your thumb until you feel it fully seat itself.
9. Remove the jack stand and lower your car back down completely.Starter damage happens most oftentimes from over-cranking the engine in situations where your motorcar's battery is at wrongdoing. The extra generation it takes to receive your machine started, the bounteous the starter heats up. Over epoch, this damages your starter's electrical connections further as the solenoid. The solenoid, when you turn the ignition important forward, pushes gone the starter's Driving-wheel gear.
