hey guys welcome back to the channel so today we're going to use the max jacks
for the first time on my brother's car so he's got a honda accord and his starters going bad
and we're going to be changing that today so stay tuned
so i started on this car is in a pretty difficult spot on the back of the engine underneath the car
instead of messing around with the rebuilt one we ended up just getting a honda oem one brand new
just to make sure it works and we don't have to do this again so you can see on here
that top bolt right there is above the stud and above the electrical stuff you gotta be able to
get something up in there with an extension to break that and then unscrew it so that's
gonna be the hardest part on this install we're underneath the car and you can see how difficult
it is to reach it's right there above the drive axle above the exhaust on the back of the engine
so if you didn't have a lift you'd be laying on your back trying to get to this thing but luckily
we got this brand new lift to use in here so most starters are pretty easy to take out there's only
two bolts that hold it to the engine and then there's one more stud that holds the wire on
and the signal wire is just a spade so you want to make sure you take apart the signal and the
power off of there make sure you disconnect your battery you don't want that cable shutting out
because it's actually attached straight to the battery and it's going to be sparking for this the
lower bolt is pretty easy to reach you can see it right there between the drive axle and the engine
so you should be able to get a ratchet in there and just unscrew that one what's difficult on this
is the very top bolt which is right now behind all the harnesses and everything above there
so the top plug we're gonna take off it's right here the plug is gonna be on top
because there's that little wedge right there so you gotta reach for it push it and then kind of
wiggle it out so there's gonna be a rubber cap that covers the stud you wanna pop that off
get a 12 millimeter and unscrew this the harness is gonna be attached to this little thing right
here so you should be able to use like a flat head or something to pop that harness off
once you get everything cleared something you press in right yeah you press it in and then
just pop it out or squiggle it out there you go all right just swing that out of the way
once you unplug that and we'll get a 12 millimeter and try to get that stud out
that off just unscrew that nut move the wire harness out of the way when you're done
so we got the wire harness cleared out of the way now so we're going to get that 14 millimeter up
to the top and break that nut and get it out all right so we just looked up there and it's got like
a really long extension nut so you kind of see it right there you don't even need an extension
to get to it 100 engineers actually thought about that and put a really long bolt right
there so you get to that starter from here so all we have to do is just get a breaker bar in there
break it off and then we should be able to get something in there to spin it out okay got it
all right just unbolt that and then unbolt the bottom one and it should be good
all right so here's that long-ass bolt that we're talking about
engineers thought of everything now we're gonna get the easy bolt which is down here
just get a regular extension and ratchet in there you should be able to get to that pretty easily
all right so we got that bolt out that last bolt is kind of a pain
just because of the angle but once we do that
we just pull the starter right out out of the way make sure all the harnesses are clear
cut the old one down and pretty much get the new one up and we should be good so
this one's exactly the same as the one we just bought same stickers and everything
pretty much the install is the reverse of the removal just get it in there you want to hand
thread your bolts in before you shoot it with anything just so you don't cross thread anything
oh yeah success hey guys thanks for watching all the way to the end of this quick video on
installing that starter on the honda accord the 2015 honda accord or that generation
is notorious for failing starters around five to seven years and this car is about
seven years old now so it's starting to fail if you guys found this video useful give it
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