How do you get the starter bolt on the top out

• Remove the negative and positive lead on the battery.
  
• Locate the starter under the vehicle. The starter will be located to the right of the motor on the bottom. Access the bolts comfortably from underneath the truck.
  
• Remove the bottom bolt with a socket wrench. The ground cable will be attached. Save the bolt for reinstalling the starter.
  
• Unbolt the positive cable on top of the starter. Use a socket wrench to remove the bolt.
  
• Unbolt the top of the starter with a socket wrench. The starter will be loose.
  
• Pull the starter straight out. Use both hands to pull out and forward as the starter is heavy. Pull forward and lower to the ground.
  

Installing the Starter

• Position the new starter in place. Match up the starter to the designated bolt holes on the mounts.
  
• Start the top bolt. Turn the bolt clockwise but do not tighten the starter down.
  
• Start the bottom bolt. Ensure the negative cable is run through the bolt before starting. Do not tighten the bolt.
  
• Tighten the top bolt with the socket wrench. Tighten it snug. Repeat the same for the bottom bolt. Ensure both bolts are tight.
  
• Tighten the positive cable to the starter. Ensure the cable is snug to the fitting.
  
• Connect the terminals to the battery. Ensure the vehicle cranks. The starter will engage without hesitation if done correctly.
  

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Replacing starter is not a difficult job.The vehicle needs to be lifted up on jack stands.The starter needs to be accessed from under the car. --------- You need to remove the air filter housing and intake, and the battery and tray if you want to make it easy on yourself. Remove those first, then remove the top starter bolt before you go under the car.

Accessing the top starter bolt,sometimes takes time. The top bolt comes from the transmission side on top.
----------- Click this link below to see diagram showing location of top bolt:--- http://technoanswers.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-replace-starter-on-2000-mazda.html --------- This will help.Thanks.Helpmech.

Hello,

To replace the starter of a 1998 toyota corolla, please follow the steps below:

1. Remove the key from the ignition, and remove the battery, do not attempt this with the battery in car.
2. Remove the battery and tray.
3. Look to the rear of the engine, You'll see the top of the starter, loosen and remove the 14mm bolt/nut holding it down below,
4. Drain the radiator and remove the lower radiator hose. This will let You squeeze the starter around the AC line,
5. Then install the new starter, the one bolt You removed from the bottom, screw the last 14mm bolt on the starter into the transmission loosely,
6. Go up top, reinstall the top bolt, tighten this firmly but not all the way,
7. Go below, tighten the bottom bolt to final spec.
   
8. Reattach all the wires, make sure the trigger wire is snapped in fully.
9. Go up top, firmly firmly tighten to spec the top bolt,
10. Reinstall everything You removed up top the below,
11. Reinstall the battery and make sure the ignition is off while doing this,
12. Hook up battery and ensure every thing that was loosened has been installed back on.
13. Then You crank it to see if it will start.

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Heres's the procedure on how to remove and install starter for your 03 Expedition. First remove the battery cables from the battery. Remove the electrical connections to the starter and label for replacement. There are 3 bolts - 13mm. The bottom bolt is also the ground terminal, therefore you will need a deep socket for that bolt. The other two are accessable ideally with about a 7" extension to your socket wrench. The top bolt is on the top of the starter and you could fit your hand up there to feel it and place the socket. The 3rd bolt is between the bottom and top bolts. Remove the 3 bolts and the starter falls right out.

All the best!

Since the starter involved the electrical system, disconnect the negative battery terminal to avoid any electrical shorts or other issues.The starter is located on the driver's side just below the intake manifold and near the firewall. Remove the transmission dip stick, which partially obstructs the starter.Loosen the top bolt on the starter with a 14-mm wrench and loosen the bottom bolt with a 17-mm wrench a couple of turns but do not remove the bolts.After both of the bolts are loose, remove the top bolt and then the bottom bolt and pull the starter out of the transmission bell housing. You will have to angle the starter a little to remove it.Remove the wire that goes to the ignition switch. The wire should simply slide off. Use the 9-mm wrench to disconnect the nut that holds on the solenoid wire.

Place wires on the new or remanufactured starter and place it back in the bell housing

Replace the top and bottom bolts.Put transmission dipstick back in the gearbox and reconnect the battery.

REMOVE KEY FROM IGNITION!!!!!! (SAFETY FIRST!!!!) UNHOOK..AND REMOVE THE BATTERY! DO NOT attempt this with the battery IN car..way too many things to go wrong.
Remove the battery and tray.

LOOK to the REAR of the engine,you'll see the TOP of the starter.. Loosen and remove the 14MM bolt/nut holding it on now down below

Drain radiator and Remove the lower radiator hose. This will let you squeeze the starter around the AC line.

THEN install the new starter,the one bolt you removed from the bottom,screw in the LAST 14MM bolt on the starter into the transmission LOOSELY!!!!!!!

GO up top,reinstall the TOP bolt,TIGHTEN THIS ONE FIRMLY,but NOT all the way... Go below,tighten the bottom bolt to final spec. RE-ATTACH ALL THE WIRES...make sure the trigger wire is snapped in fully. GO up top,FIRMLY tighten to spec the top bolt.. Re-install everything you removed up top then down below Reinstall the battery(MAKE SURE THE IGNITION IS OFF!!!!!) Hook up battery...

LOOK AT EVERYTHING...see if ANYTHING is loose.. CHECK EVERY BOLT YOU TOUCHED TO SEE THAT IT IS TIGHT, MAKE SURE ALL WIRES ARE IN PLACE... Crank it...Does it crank?? it should fire MUCH better then when you started....good luck..

can't rerach the top bolt on the starter, any ideas?

Top bolt is almost dirrectly above bottom bolt but,toward engine about 1 inch. slip 13mm.socket with enstention behind starter solenoid ,you have to fish for this bolt.Very hard if you do not have a rack,We always remove it from bottom.

starter has two bolts. make sure you are using self locking washers. you could also use thread tape or buy a tube of locktite. bolts are about 4-5 inches

Hi, I am assuming you know where starter is. If you have found bottom bolt #14 metric socket which to reach you "must" use a medium length extention and go into it right above manifold pipe to reach it. I found if you take the guard off the starter 3 small hex head screws, it is much easier to get at all bolts (2). Whats strange is the lower bolt on starter mounts from the front and the "TOP" bolt #14 has to be reached from the rear of starter. You can not see the top bolt from bottom or top, but if you use your hand and reach up aroung the back of starter you can feel it! It took 2 of us one reaching up from bottom with just #14 deep well socket (no extention) on the rachet and feeling where to place it with rachet facing up, and person over top of engine reaching down helping to align socket on bolt, then use a piece of pipe or ? From the top place pipe extension on end of rachet and bolt will easily.
break loose. Good Luck it sounds hard but is fairly easy with right tools. kasheyboy77