The starter's Driving-wheel turns the flywheel on the engine.
The starter in your Chevy Bag should work without flaw for 60,000 miles or expanded. Whether the starter continually requires replacement, your Exploit may acquire an electrical complication impeding the starter's performance. Happily noticable signs of starter damage comprise blatant winding or accelerated clicking when the material is turned to begin the engine. On the 3.1-liter One thousand nine hundred ninety eight Chevrolet Bag, the starter mounts on the lower front of the engine, which makes it child's play to access.
Instructions
1. Lift the hood on the Crack and place the car's battery. Remove the bad battery cable with a socket wrench, and position the cable outside from the battery.
2. Area two spin blocks firmly endure both rear tires, then operate the emergency brake.
3. Uplift the automobile on the Chauffeur's side with a machine jack, and assign a jack stand on the prompt hold up of the machine jack. Stand the abutment arm on the jack stand to the heighth of the machine jack and reimburse its locking pin to secure it.
4. Designation Everyone of the solenoid's wires clearly with achromic painter's tape, then remove the cap covering the wires. Some models hold a minor brace connected to the AC compressor that crosses the starter. Whether your Biggie has the diminutive brace, call a socket-wrench to remove its one bolt, then remove the starter mounting aficionado holding it in put.
5. Remove the nuts holding the solenoid's wires, then slide them off their post. Remove the wiring harness plug from the oil pressure gauge sensor, and tuck it to the side out of the way. Connect an oil pressure switch socket to your socket wrench, and remove the oil pressure gauge sensor from its mounting position. Use care so as not to damage the sensor; once removed, place it in a safe location.
The nut threads onto a stud that can not be removed. If you removed the brace connected to the AC compressor then you already removed the starter's retaining nut. If your Venture doesn't have the brace, remove the outer retaining nut at the base of the starter, then lower the starter out of the van. Hold the starter with one hand, and remove the inner starter mounting bolt. Lower the starter from its position and set it on the ground. The starter on the Venture has one mounting bolt and one retaining nut.6. Note the position of the shims on the starter; they must be reused during installation. The shims provide clearance between the pinion and the engine's flywheel. They mount between the base of the starter and the transmission case.
7. Install the new starter by reversing these steps in sequence. Tighten the starter mounting bolt and nut with a 3/8-inch drive torque wrench set to Thirty two foot-lbs. Tighten the solenoid's wires until snug, or 1/4 turn past hand tight.
