Today we have a 2006 Honda CR-V and we’re going to be replacing the starter motor.
The starter motor is actually underneath the intake manifold.
So what I’m going to do is I’m going to pop these two bolts off, I’ll tell you what
size they are in a second, remove the manifold, and then get underneath and take out the starter
motor.
Let’s do it.
First things first, I’m going to remove the battery, taking off those two terminals
there and popping it out so I can have more room to work as well as nothing will short
out when I’m taking wires off and stuff.
These little guys are 10 millimeters.
Just pop them out and then the little plastic shroud comes off.
So I’m going to start by removing this for the air filters, the hose that goes from the
intake manifold to the air filter box.
So there’s a little plug right here that I disconnected and then there’s a tube that
plugged in right below that onto a little spout that I just pulled off.
Now I’m going to loosen up this Phillips head screw right here as well as this Phillips
head screw right there where my finger is.
And that will release the clamps that hold this hose down.
So I’m going to pull that out and detach it from the intake manifold.
We’re removing this black segment right here is what the ultimate goal is.
Now I’m going to work on getting everything that’s attached to this metal part right
here disconnected.
So it looks like there’s a bolt down there on the side that holds this cable in.
Got a plug here, hose here, plug there.
Disconnect that.
Another plug down here at the bottom and then that should give…that should get rid of
all the attachments attached to that.
And then I can start unbolting the black part of the manifold.
There are two hoses down there at the bottom that need to be disconnected as well.
One’s right there that you can see and the one that’s directly behind it I haven’t
disconnected yet.
So hopefully I can get my shadow out of the way here, but there’s a plug for this end
of the manifold, there’s a plug right here and then there’s another plug… down…that
gray thing that you can see right there, that’s a plug as well that I have to take off.
And there’s a hose in the center of the manifold right here that I need to remove
as well.
Just pop that out.
And then these bolts right here are 12 millimeters.
So I’m unscrewing all of those.
There’s another one right back in here.
Sorry about the shade.
And then there’s another one in the center right here.
So this is the engine right there and then deep down in underneath, that little green
tie, I just snipped that with a pair of plastic snips because there was a cable attached to
it and that freed up that cable.
And then over on this end, this was attached to that little guy right there and then there’s
like two more cables that are up inside the manifold as well.
Those just slide right out of the little slots that they’re in.
I’m also going to take off this latch right here just for kicks and giggles so I can pull…so
I have more room to pull that manifold out when the time comes.
There’s not a whole lot of gap between that and the manifold.
These are 10 millimeter bolts right there around the edges; there are 3 of them.
And the hardest part is done.
That is the intake manifold where it connects to the engine and everything.
When you’re disconnecting these bottom two hoses out the bottom, liquid will drain out
of those, so what I’ve done is I’ve taken just my screw driver bit and I just plugged
up that hole so none of the liquid drains out.
You want to keep as much in there as possible.
Anyway, that is the starter right there.
There are a couple different connections.
This guy right here just clips in like that and so just bend back this rubber part and
just pull it back.
Make sure you pull on the connector itself and not the wire.
This guy right down here is a 17 millimeter; this one’s a 12 millimeter.
And this one back here is a 14 millimeter; that long bolt.
So once you get all of those done the starter itself should just pop out from the engine
body.
And right in here we have both of the starters.
We just want to make sure they have good connections in the same spot and the same size and everything
like that; same all around.
Amazon sells starters for pretty cheap so I will link this in the video description
below.
So go ahead and check that out right below this video.
They are pretty cheap.
Anyway, so there are a couple other videos on YouTube kind of explaining how to do this.
One of the guys comes up from the bottom, but as you can see once the starter is sitting
here in this spot, that bolt on this side would have been almost impossible to reach
due to this coolant line and you know, a couple of the other hoses.
It’s just guys with big hands have problems reaching in holes that small.
So I recommend coming in from the top.
Honestly it only took me probably, I don’t know, an hour or so to get all of the hoses
disconnected and everything.
And that was my first time without a good video to watch so you should be able to do
it in a quicker amount of time.
What’s really nice with my method is that the only thing that came out was really the
intake manifold and the starter itself.
Like I didn’t have to take apart the air filter…I took apart the battery obviously
just to give me a little bit more room to work with, and this connection right here.
But there are other guys on YouTube who were taking out like weird stuff like the radiator…another
guy took out the air filter box…like you don’t need to touch any of that, just this
manifold right here.
So a relatively simple process, I would say an hour to take out, an hour to put back in.
Two hours total.
Not too bad.
Also something that would make your life a little bit easier…here the little connector
on the side of the engine, this guy,…or on the side of the manifold just plugs in
with the little tube right there.
So if you want to put this into the manifold first and then just plug it up into the top
just like that, it would make it easier cuz you don’t have to reach in and find the
little plugs again on the side.
So there on the intake manifold itself is where these two little guys plug in.
I’m going to reattach them.
It’s a lot easier doing it when you can see it.
And that’s it.
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