Help Starter Motor

[pro_driver]

I swear only if that bolt come out I would of fix this car my self..

[pro_driver]

Spend money on mechanic is not a option.. but sometime just can't help it.. some mechanic can't be trusted..

[altezzaclub]

OK, here is what mine looks like. There are no nuts, the short bolts go through the bellhousing and into the thread of the starter motor.

 

The top one I get by putting a 14mm ring-open spanner on it, using the ring, and hook a 17mm ring spanner onto the open end of the 14mm by its 17mm ring. This gives me more leverage and I can swing it a small amount from the driver's side towards the passnger's side. ie clockwise when looking from the front of the car, anti-clockwise if looking from the back of the car. You could get a long socket bar and a 14mm socket in there I reckon.

 

Then we have pictures from underneath, where you will have to swing a socket on an extension. From underneath you will looking at the bolt from the back of the car, so it undoes anticlockwise.

 

Is yours the same? Which bolt & why won't it come out?? Head smashed? Too tight to turn? Can't grip it?

Edited April 3, 2012 by altezzaclub

[pro_driver]

Pretty much the same.. took out the button bolt but can't take out top bolt.. its very tight to turn every time try to turn it sleep out..

Edited April 3, 2012 by pro_driver

[pro_driver]

I'm at mechanic now hopefully everything when smoothly..

[pro_driver]

Just want to say thanks everyone for helping me with mechanical problems.. thanks to Rolla club without them nothing is possible...

[pro_driver]

Just want to ask quick question is it good idea to leave my car at the mechanic????

[pro_driver]

Omg I'm asking stupid question sorry..

[altezzaclub]

It should be OK, but it depends on what city you are in... you know more than we do about how honest people are around you.

 

Make sure he puts a good bolt back in if your one is rounded off from the spanner slipping, and that he doesn't do it up too tight.

 

When I get tyres done I always make sure they use a spanner on the wheel nuts, not an air-driven hammer socket. That way I can always undo them later.

[pro_driver]

You are soo right atlezzaclub, seriously you should open ur own business for old school corollas..

Edited April 3, 2012 by pro_driver

[pro_driver]

Ok guys now that my Rolla is working again an has been fixed I though just took it for spit, it felt really nice but end of the day actually spent 300 dollars.. its got reconditioned starter, fixed kill switch an there was no patrol going through the mixture all that shit is done... Thank god.. last thing want to hear is stupid mechanic add another 50 dollors..

Edited April 3, 2012 by pro_driver