[Intro]
Alright, today I’m going to show you how to replace the starter motor on a 1998 Toyota
Tacoma.
The starter motor is actually here underneath the passenger side wheel well, right back
there.
Make sure that when you take the wheel off to get access to that starter motor behind
the wheel well, that you support the truck at more than one point so you have a back
up.
We don’t want any flat do-it-yourselfers out there.
If you look at the replacement starter that I just bought, there are only 2 bolts that
hold it in place; right here on the bottom and then up here at the top as well.
When you’re looking at it from the inside, you see that bottom bolt down there?
It actually comes through the other side and screws into the starter motor so there’s
nothing to ratchet off on this side, you just have to take the bolt out from the other end.
So now I’m going to go underneath and show you what the bolts look like coming into the
back of the starter.
So there’s the wheel well coming underneath the truck.
And we got the transmission here.
So the first bolt is going to be this guy right here.
It’s a 14 millimeter; so undo that guy.
And then way up in there, right here, there’s another 14 millimeter bolt that we’re going
to take out as well.
So I’m going to unscrew both of those bolts and pull them out.
This one’s not going to have room to pull out so I’m just going to bring it up until
this bracket and then it should be unscrewed all the way from the other side.
Then the starter motor has 2 connections on it.
You can see this guy right there.
I’m going to take off this other side right here that’s just clipped in that I just
undo from the back side.
To get a little more leverage with your wrenches, you can see it’s up there attached to the
bolt and I have 2 wrenches hooked together and I can move them like this.
It will give me an extra foot of leverage on that bolt so I can break it loose.
So before I get too crazy disconnecting things on the starter, I’m going to go ahead and
remove the battery connection; the negative battery terminal, so that I doesn’t start
sparking on me or anything when I start working below.
And now that that’s done, I’ve already popped off that little plastic piece.
It was sitting just like this up underneath the starter on that little bolt right there.
That’s a 14 millimeter.
So I’m going to unscrew that and pop off that connection from the starter.
And then there’s one more connection on the other side that you can barely see.
It just plugs right into this little plastic connection on the starter so I’m just going
to undo that as well.
That will get rid of all the electrical components from the starter and allow me to pull it out
from the transmission.
There’s a shot with it disconnected.
Got that nut off and then that little wire just pops down off of that bottom part.
The little plastic connection is down there with it as well; it’s popped off the starter.
Remember that if you try to do this with your vehicle hot, you’re going to have a bad
time because these things are right up right next to the bolts.
Now I’ve got those two bolts out from the sides of the starter.
That hole for the starter is pretty worthless because the starter comes out better down
here anyway, so I pulled it down out by the axle and that is it.
So there we go.
Now I’m going to take the other starter, put it back in next to the axle and try to
mount that boy back into place.
The new starter is in place, bolted in.
Got the two wire connections down at the bottom all put in place.
Make sure that you don’t over tighten that bolt down at the bottom, or that bottom connection
will just twist right off and you’ll have to get back in there and attach a new starter.
So make sure that you don’t over tighten that at all.
The battery connection’s screwed on again and we’ll give it a test start.
And we’re good.
Now all we need to do is put the wheel back on and we are good to go.
If you have any questions about the painted calipers, or the LED light bar, or the truck
box, I will link each of those videos at the end of this one.
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