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Originally Posted by Jeremy5848
You must be terribly strong or terribly heavy to call this job a piece of cake! The bottom bolt of the two holding the starter onto the car is hard enough and it's right there in plain sight (I suspect mine has never been disturbed since the factory put it on).
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Actually, I'm neither.
They are on there good and tight. (make sure you reinstall them good and tight too - that starter makes a LOT of torque and you don't want it coming loose) I used a heavy hammer to bang on the end of my wrench in the desired direction of travel. Kind of a poor-man's impact wrench.
I also had to use one of those bent wrenches like you show in your photo. Mine was a VW diesel fuel injector wrench that just happens to be 17mm.
As you said, one of the bolts must be done by feel since it's very close to the body of the car with not much working room.
But even so, only two bolts and a couple of wires, I still call that piece of cake. Want a real challenge? Try changing a Porsche 911 starter. The 911 starter is on the top side of the gearbox, and the gearbox is beneath the back seat of the car. Basically you can't see any of it visually - you just lay under the car, "hug" the transmission with your arms, and do it ALL by feel. Ahhh, good times!
