Replacing the Starter is Elementary with the Fitting Tools
Whether your 2001 Saturn SL1 won't alpha and you be schooled the battery is agreeable, you may duty to convert the starter. You Testament exigency a minimum of tools and approximately an period of your age. Be certain the engine is completely refreshing before working.
Instructions
Remove the Starter
1. Grounds your 2001 Saturn SL1 on a consistent surface. Engage the parking brake and bare the engine hood.
2. Remove the rejection cable from the battery by loosening the bolt on the connecting borderline with an expanded box wrench and pulling the cable off the battery proclaim.
3. Set the starter. Make sure to put them on the correct post; the coil wire goes on the upper and larger post.10. Reinstall the intercooler pump bracket.
The pump bracket looks love a metal swing arm with a slot in the centre and supports the intercooler pump. Remove the bolt with an regulate box boundary wrench and pull the pump and bracket absent of the journey.
5. Remove the nuts from the front two posts of the starter that occupancy the wires from the ignition coil and alternator in dwelling. Pull the wires off the starter.
6. There are onliest two bolts holding the starter in city. Remove the bottom bolt of the starter first. Use an open end box wrench due to the small access area. Pull the bolt out.
7. Support the starter with one hand and remove the top bolt. Pull the starter from the engine.
Install Starter
8. Install your replacement starter by holding it in position and inserting the top bolt first. Do not tighten the top bolt all the way. Push the bottom bolt into place and hand tighten the bolt. Once both bolts are hand tight, use a torque wrench to apply the right amount of torque. For the starter bolts, tighten to 37 lbs.
9. Reconnect the wires to the posts last of the starter. The starter in a 2001 Saturn SL1 is located on the passenger side of the automobile, to the rear of the engine block, fair-minded under the intake manifold (where the exhaust pipes annex the engine block).4. Remove the intercooler pump bracket (it has one bolt at its imitation) which is blocking access to the starter.
Torque the bolt to 15 lbs.
11. Reconnect the battery and close the hood.
