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Possible Starter issue with 98 Corolla

Greetings.

I have begun to have issues whith starting the car. I turn the key and it only clicks. I turn it again and it fires right up. Now, it takes more turns for the starter to engadge. I thought maybe it was a contacts issue with the battery terminals. Cleaned and replaced, same thing. Now it sounds like maybe I need to replace the starter before I am stranded somewhere.

2 questions.

First, does that sound like the right asessment, that its the starter? Second, can someone point me to a url that shows how to pull and replace the starter?

Thanks in advance.

Reply to
Hystorm
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I just had the same problem. It was the starter solenoid.

Reply to
JPL=0004

On my 93 Corolla, (267,000 km) the copper contacts in the solenoid wore away (the arcing as they open and close in normal wear, I think). Then the starter became hit-and-miss.

For a few bucks the electrical rebuilder gave me a copper contact bolt almost the same as the original. Removing the starter was simple and disassembly very easy. Problem solved!

I would have liked to flip over the (centre) piston contact (looks like a copper washer), or to replace it, however I can't figure out how to get it off the piston. The solenoid piston comes up to form a bridge for the current, so it gets the other half of the arcing & erosion.

Good luck!

Jack

Reply to
Ralph

I've replaced contacts twice on a Corolla starter, reusing the plunger. It seems that the main problem is *uneven* wearing of the contacts.

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Fishface

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