hey everybody thanks for watching peace love and guns today we have a very special treat for you
this is a 2012 honda accord and for all intents and purposes of what we're doing here today
uh it could be a 2011 10 nine or eight and everything will be the same and we're just
gonna go ahead and fumble through a starter replacement on this car so let's go ahead and
get started we're going to start by removing the battery you always want to remove your negative
cable first because reasons so we remove the negative cable like so
you just touch that really yep it's only harmful to you if you uh ground yourself and then you put
a path between like say you and your heart and then it's perhaps through you the important thing
is to not touch this and this in some way at the same time yeah which is why you remove this one
first because if you remove this one this is still connected and then you're grounded through the
chassis of the car you touch something and then you die and then better you just melt a wrench
in your hand or something like that and that's not good really it would melt there's a lot of current
in these batteries so i would love to see a video of a wrench melting buy a battery and we can do
that experiment buy a battery for the express purpose of melting a wrench yeah it's like we
have another uh those were 10 millimeters we have another set of 10 millimeter bolts right chair
you don't need that do i i'm just in the bushes do you think humanity is is uh
is fundamentally bad will what do you think yeah we kind of suck but it is what it is why
is there no handle on this battery come on cause because i want you to burn yourself i took it off
so you'd spill acid on yourself look it's mud from crate box that's great box blood
look at that [ __ ] we're just gonna push the wires up here so it's not gonna get in the way
this wire is gonna go over there so it's not in the way we got some radiator hoses
and then right through there we got you a starter right there that piece right there
and uh we got a number of clips and all kinds of fun stuff and uh we gotta find our angle
of attack here oh yeah we're in for a bad day what's up just uh we're in for a bad day we do
what we must because we can hey if you're not comfortable doing this
i have a mechanic i'm perfectly comfortable with this it's just a matter of do i want to do this
yeah i feel like i said just looking at the new part here guys you got a bolt here for the wire
and then you got two big fat bolts that mesh the gear with the crankshaft here uh so one two
and uh it looks like it's just two bolts which sounds way too simple uh there's also that bolt
which connects that to there electrically and then another electrical connector there
so we got to take off our electrical connectors and then take off two big fat bolts and okay in
theory that's it it's gonna be super easy barely an inconvenience this guy is a push button style
we're gonna take that guy off never underestimate the power of a good set of curved needle nose
pliers so this uh should help us finagle something something here or maybe just break something
come on you can do it there it goes just a little bit of leverage properly applied
all right we'll just move that out of the way
lift up this little petticoat right there that little petticoat and then we'll get at
that let's see if we can move this around yeah we can get a little bit of maneuvering there if that
helps probably won't what we did here was we just removed this connector from this part right here
and just to kind of show you what that looks like uh the connector on this side of it
the connector on this side of it has a button tab that you press from this side i'll show you what
that looks like here so it'll be like this and you just squeeze down on that portion of it right
there and then pull it out and i just used a screwdriver and kind of wiggled it here while
i pressed that button down and then it allowed me to pull that out now we're going to remove
this bolt right here right here so that we can get that main cable off of there and that bolt
is what's underneath this little petticoat right here and then that little petticoat right there so
there's a wire connected to that petticoat under the petticoat yep now can we can we remove these
hoses uh you can but we're gonna have radiator fluid all over the driveway and i'm gonna give
it the old reach around okay so 13 millimeter socket okay we're going after the uh the nut
the fastener that connects the cable to the starter solenoid that goes right in right chump
and uh we gotta mess around that's that hose it's shielded with this very nice plastic shield right
there which just makes this so much easier this little bracket that clamps the radiator hose
down right here all right it has a little kind of cross star pattern there and it goes through this
little square part and i just kind of rotated that and pull that out i'm gonna snap it there
to keep it and we're just gonna kind of gingerly bend this out of the way with brute force
there was one it was joe jorgensen i'm gonna abolish the
whatever oh you're gonna make me vote third party all right so you got that nut out of
there so that should let us lift this piece up and he broke it yep okay so now that's
disconnected yeah and uh we got that free and now we just have to get the starter off of there
this wire right there is probably going to be in the way when we go to put that starter on
there we go so that has a little bit of a you can see it's got this little christmas tree
type of fascinating bit and uh that guy there you just pinch it from the other side and it goes into
this hole right here so that'll pop out and it should give us a little bit of room to work there
now if there is one thing that's universally true about working on cars and having socket
wrenches is you cannot have too many different extensions in various lengths
because you can macgyver something to work these are really nice being able to kind of
go around the corner in order to get kind of an exact you know level torque on something
you gotta you know kind of hold it at that joint so that it it twists on the axis effectively
but um having the bendy bobs there would be good you don't need that so you got the the
long boys and the short boys and then you can finagle something up to get to that in there
no is that boy with a wire boy with an eye the start is oriented like this on the car
and we're trying to get this bolt right here show me that bolt and one's located right down there i
can see it through here here we have a i think 15 millimeter socket to get it that bolt there
and that bolt there so we uh find a thingy that gives us the proper reach to get in there and um
i recommend having a long ratchet and uh being able to apply that pressure um i it required
that i have two of these uh two inch extenders or whatever that is so maybe you need about a four or
five inch extension get in there real easy it is a 14 millimeter socket with a long handled
dealy bobber you don't have to do this sort of thing which is uh can be a widow maker all
right so then we have one on the bottom we need to break loose and that one may be more of a
hold it in tight oh so i don't get injured yep remember we're using the widowmaker here
i'm going to move my hand back away oh that's probably it great idea
yeah what is this piece i think that's the oil dipstick the oil hole so you just gotta pull it
out yep hey man i think it's a cool gimmick to do like mechanic stuff but then like be talking about
random cool stuff to be our niche oh we didn't get any one of those so we're going to keep this
the reason that i wanted to change this is it was grinding it when you start it up it would go
after it finished so there's a lot of
rusty yeah rusty rust in there yeah uh shmu probably something
you do have wear on the leading edges of these so that's probably where that grinding is coming from
this also has like a springtacular action to it springtacular huh so your solenoid is supposed to
trip and then this moves engages the gears and if something was holding it up you know i don't even
know if we should be able to do that with our fingers so let's see huh he can so it might not
have been engaging enough with the solenoid so it applies electrical current to it and then
it power fists out and then it should fully engage the gear but it may have been lagging
in that or just not doing it at all the old one comes with a handy gasket the new one does not
so we're just going to clean that off there that's a new one that's an old one and that's the
shim from the old unit we're going to reuse because reasons uh we can now see
we can now see the contact area of the crankshaft where the starter gearing is i don't see anything
looks crazy so we don't need that anymore this is interesting uh so the old one has
this piece on it and it goes i was noticing that there is a gap between the shim and here
and if that shim is supposed to help keep stuff out it didn't make sense that there would be this
hole right there so uh hey there's this piece that needs to go in there i guess we're learning things
it's funny that they didn't come with this with the new starter and see if you bought
a starter you didn't buy a shim see yeah you got to pay extra for that clearly so now we're
just going to do the dirty work of finagling this in there gotta move that gotta drop it
twist it pull it pop it it was full when we started okay there is that somewhat in place
now we just got a wiggle we got a wiggle okay okay
yeah we're gonna start those screws the bottom one came out last it'll go there it also goes
through the this little metal bracket piece right here that holds this wire that was in the way
so we're just gonna push that through and we're gonna see if we can start it with our thumb here
wiggle this big chunk of metal around okay that's either started or it started cross threading
you see they've started or it started cross-threading we'll know when we put
300 pounds of force on it that's the top end right now going through the hole at the top
like like zoe start the top one and start the bottom one
it's not working with a lot of room so i'm doing it by hand
we wanted to move some bathrooms around but all right so there is uh
there is bolt the bottom and there is bolt the top and they are snug as a bug in a rug
and then we just need to put the connectors on yeah okay so we've got the starter bolted on
hopefully tight enough who knows all right now we gotta peel back the petticoats on
this little guy right there and then we gotta get that over that bolt right chunk
yeah and this was hard though that was hard to do hard to undo so it's gonna be harder to push it
back down are you looking for this guy here that's probably the guy i'm looking for and then we screw
it on without losing it just kind of holding it with one finger and then putting that on there
and then as i recall it was a 12 millimeter nope it's definitely not it's a 13 milli
tighten that on there and it probably doesn't require enough strength to
break that whole thing off so we're not going to do that pull the petticoat down
and at this point we can probably uh go ahead
and stick this little piece back down inside a hole from which it came
and there we go and we're gonna lift that up click it into place and then in theory
we just need to plug this guy in right here all right we can put this little clip back yeah so the
christmas tree put the little christmas tree clip back right in through the little hole right there
okay just snap back in there we go okay all right so we got the stirrer in we've got the connection
pushed in good nice and tight there was a little rubber o-ring there
that you have to remove so that that connector uh can slide all the way in and snap on if you try
and snap it on with this little rubber there it'll seem like it snaps on but it didn't so take that
off the original doesn't have that we've got it connected we put the battery back in we connected
the positive terminal first we connected the negative second so this is the first to come off
and it's the last to go on and then uh yeah we're gonna start the car up for you
like butter this is a battery tray and it goes down at the bottom there
and then you're gonna hook the hooky thingy we're gonna put the battery into the battery tray
and then uh one of these is the front side which i'm going to say is that side question mark let's
go there's an arrow for front reach down past the air down and turn it and there is that
and then we find it on the other side let's make sure our viewers can see
that that is supposed to go in the side there yeah yeah all right
all right we're gonna put our air dam back on
wiggle it and jiggle it until success there we go
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