Just my luck, when I pick my son up from university to visit his ailing Grandfather and the starter packs up.
At this point, I just didn’t have much option other than just call the local 24 hour towing company with no background knowledge of if the firm they’ll be taking it to can even do the work (sometimes about the only thing those kinds of shops can do is change belts).
So calling him from out of town, I’m told that one of the bolts on the starter is so frozen that he just can’t seem to get any leverage on it. He tells me, it’s got a hex top instead of a conventional bolt. He thinks he is going to have to take the exhaust manifold to get off it, and might possibly have to weld something on to the bolt to get enough leverage it out.
Has anyone run into this and have any ideas?
At this point, it’s a 2000 (so 15 years old), with about 128,000 on it.
Thanks.
At this point, I just didn’t have much option other than just call the local 24 hour towing company with no background knowledge of if the firm they’ll be taking it to can even do the work (sometimes about the only thing those kinds of shops can do is change belts).
So calling him from out of town, I’m told that one of the bolts on the starter is so frozen that he just can’t seem to get any leverage on it. He tells me, it’s got a hex top instead of a conventional bolt. He thinks he is going to have to take the exhaust manifold to get off it, and might possibly have to weld something on to the bolt to get enough leverage it out.
Has anyone run into this and have any ideas?
At this point, it’s a 2000 (so 15 years old), with about 128,000 on it.
Thanks.