My hats off to you for trying this one. I too had a flakey starter on my 89 Sport although it lasted 270000km. It finally got unbareable (sometimes 10 to 100 turns of the key to get it to turn over). It was cold and miserable outside so I bit the bullet and took it to the dealer as I definitly was not up to that job. Anyway, cost me $380 Canadian for a rebuilt installed (twice as the first one was defective out of the box!). I hate spending that kind of money on something I probably could do myself but it looks well worth it for this job!
Brian Cleary
bcleary@interlog.com
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From: mahoneyr@syr.lmco.com
To: dakota@ait.fredonia.edu
Date: Thursday, April 24, 1997 9:50 AM
Subject: Maintenance Blues
Folks;
I enjoy tinkering with my vehicle to fix things that I know are wrong.
However, there are some cases where it may be better off to let 'They
who gets the big buck' (read dealer) to go thru all the hassles....
To wit:
I was having a Starter problem (even though the truck only has 45K miles
on it, it is a '90 and it does have 7 full years of 'Starts'on it) So I
figured I would replace it my self no big deal.. So I opened the Chiltons
manual that I have (I know, I know no comments necessary..) and its says:
to remove starter, remove two bolts and slide back and out. UNLESS you
have a 4WD DAK. then ... To make a long story short, three pages of
instructions followed. It should start off with "Add the following three
new swear words to your vocabulary..." I find it so hard to believe that
CC would locate Nuts & Bolts where only 1 inch high people can get at them
(maybe 2 inch people too if they crouched..) At any rate, the two bolts
came out in about 1 hour and went back in in about 6 hrs. Ugh. Anyway, Its
in, and it fixed the problem, and even tho my back, from bending real
strange, and my scraped up hands and arms may heal, I can tell you one
thing, if that starter ever goes bad again, I'll author a classified ad
that starts as follows: 1990 4x4 Dakota, Some work needed...
Just out of curiosity, does anyone have one of those manuals that
the dealers have that says how long a starter r&r is supposed to take?
maybe I dont want to know...
-rICK
'90 4x4 3.9L Auto(A500)
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