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What a pain....
Okay so two nights ago, i start hearing a strange noise. Than i get to my friends house, park, and try to restart it to see if i could figure out noise.
Well the ******* wouldn't start then. So low and behold the starter went out. So i talk to my pop, and oh thats an easy fix! Only 2 bolts. So i go to see how much a starter is, (55 bucks for one with lifetime warranty.) Cool not to much really.
Yea two bolts my ***....Yea there were only two bolts, but turns out only 1 of those came out with a wrench...
One was STUCK! I tried with a socket, wrench, lubing with Blaster several times, tried knocking it free, tried heating it, tried vice grips, NOTTHING WOULD WORK!!!
Turned out i had to grind the head of bolt off. Oh well should be easy enough. Oh wait its a tight space, so had to take side handle of angle grinder off. Still tight, woops knuckles to 1000000 mph grinding stone. Woops dropped it and nearly had that in my face also!!
Finally i start cutting it with the usually burning hot embers flying into my shirt and on my face/eyes. Dododododod, WAIT WHATS THIS **** DRIPPING ONTO MY FACE?
No worries just transmission fluid..... Yea i managed to cut both of the transmission lines thats right next to the starter......
Pisssssed off i say hell with it and i decide to work on it tomarrow.
Good news with little effort i grinded rest of bolt head off and got the starter off with just a soaked right shoulder in transmission fluid. Also the bolt was long enough and had broken lose now that the starter was off so i could just screw out the rest of bolt.
So finally today i got my starter put on (which was the problem and runs now! Thank the lord!!
) And got some compression fittings put on the lines to keep them from leaking( one i didnt get good enough and still leaks so i gotta fix it tomarrow)
Oh yea sorry for all the ranting lol just had to vent for that should of been about a 20 minute job that turned into 2 days!!
Okay okay im done. Night everyone!
Well the ******* wouldn't start then. So low and behold the starter went out. So i talk to my pop, and oh thats an easy fix! Only 2 bolts. So i go to see how much a starter is, (55 bucks for one with lifetime warranty.) Cool not to much really.
Yea two bolts my ***....Yea there were only two bolts, but turns out only 1 of those came out with a wrench...
One was STUCK! I tried with a socket, wrench, lubing with Blaster several times, tried knocking it free, tried heating it, tried vice grips, NOTTHING WOULD WORK!!!
Turned out i had to grind the head of bolt off. Oh well should be easy enough. Oh wait its a tight space, so had to take side handle of angle grinder off. Still tight, woops knuckles to 1000000 mph grinding stone. Woops dropped it and nearly had that in my face also!!
Finally i start cutting it with the usually burning hot embers flying into my shirt and on my face/eyes. Dododododod, WAIT WHATS THIS **** DRIPPING ONTO MY FACE?
No worries just transmission fluid..... Yea i managed to cut both of the transmission lines thats right next to the starter......
Pisssssed off i say hell with it and i decide to work on it tomarrow.
Good news with little effort i grinded rest of bolt head off and got the starter off with just a soaked right shoulder in transmission fluid. Also the bolt was long enough and had broken lose now that the starter was off so i could just screw out the rest of bolt.
So finally today i got my starter put on (which was the problem and runs now! Thank the lord!!
) And got some compression fittings put on the lines to keep them from leaking( one i didnt get good enough and still leaks so i gotta fix it tomarrow)Oh yea sorry for all the ranting lol just had to vent for that should of been about a 20 minute job that turned into 2 days!!
Okay okay im done. Night everyone!
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