I need a new/rebuilt starter. I dont want to change it every 2 or three months.

 

NAPA sells them. Just keep your receipts so if it goes they give you a new one

 

Rebuild your existing one!

 

It's usually the starter contacts, which are less than $10 to replace... See 4crawler's page..

 

http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/CheapTricks/Starter.shtml

 

You must be playing in the deep water eh?

 

No,I havent been playing at all in this truck.Just driving back and forth to work.It did sit outside for awhile when I had the engine out rebuilding it.How much trouble is it to rebuild one of these?

 

The hardest part is getting it out. Then it's just a matter of changing the contacts (maybe 4 screws total).

 

That does a lot of good when you are in the middle of BFE!

 

 

I know..I know...kids these days and their "terms"


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BFE

 

Yeah Thats what I thought

Damn kids

 

Why do you need a new starter in the first place? What are the symptoms? And, who changes a starter every 2-3 months?

Toyota starters are very easy to repair. The hardest part, as mentioned already, is just pulling the starter out. The contacts are super easy to replace. A dealership once told me I may want to consider replacing the plunger too, but I never have.

If you want to get by super cheap, you don't even have to get new contacts. Just remove the one that's worn, clean it off, and bend it ever so slightly so so the lip that touches the plunger sits a hair higher. I did that to a starter a year ago and it's still going strong. Mind you, I did this when it was 30 below zero outside, and on a weekend, and I didn't have replacement contacts in hand. It was intended to be a very short term temporary fix, but I let it go for a year before actually fixing it (and I could have let it continue to go).

 

I have never had any luck in the past with "rebuilt" starters or alternaters from Autozone and the like.That is what I meant by having to change it out every 2 or 3 months.

 

I would rather use a used Toyota starter than an autozone unit (which I have seen a few that failed out of the box) My original toyota starter made it 225,000 miles before it gave up if that tells ya anything

 

bfe sucks

 

BFE is where all the good trails are...