I know this belongs in classified section but I believe more E16 owners will see it here, anyways, my starter is currently working whenever it wants to and I know you guys have abunch of crap laying around like I do so somebody sell me a starter they KNOW is good... this piece of crap is only two years old and it's already dying. Does anybody know if and what other starters would be interchangable? I've got an auto e16 and auto ca18 starter but of course they don't come close to working on my car.
Wow, those things are 100 - 150$. I have 3 and only using 1. I think 1 of the spares was overtightened and broke one of the boltholes. THat, or I think Red Devil might be coming into town this weekend and we were gonna hit the JY. Starters $25 I think.
Have you isolated the problem with your starter? Gears? Brushes? Solenoid?
I can see/hear the solenoid come on and push out the gear, but the motor doesn't turn, so I checked for continuity across the solenoid's terminals, I got between 1 and 5 ohms in no particular pattern, it seems that that wouldn't be enough resistance to keep the motor from tying to spin so the contacts don't seem to be the problem, I'm thinking the problem is in the motor itself, like there's a bad spot on the comm. or something, I didn't think at the time to try to turn the motor a little and see if it would catch. I was gonna check it out some more but it statrted raining, and I have no garage!
$25 sounds ok but it would be nice to know what kind of working condition it's in. I'll tear apart the motor tomorrow morning and make sure it isn't something I can't fix.
Looks like I fixed it, I pulled the starter again this afternoon, pulled the motor apart and noticed that a couple of the springs that are supposed to hold the brushes against the comm. were partially resting on the brushholders. I bent the springs a little so they'd stay off the brushholders and cleaned up the comm with some fine emery cloth, works like new now, the car doesn't take as long to start as it used to also. Thanx for the help anyways!
Looks like I fixed it, I pulled the starter again this afternoon, pulled the motor apart and noticed that a couple of the springs that are supposed to hold the brushes against the comm. were partially resting on the brushholders. I bent the springs a little so they'd stay off the brushholders and cleaned up the comm with some fine emery cloth, works like new now, the car doesn't take as long to start as it used to also. Thanx for the help anyways!
those springs are dangerous when you pop them off, almost ripped my ear off the other day. I found out that the sentra starter that came with my tranny from red_devil and my pulsar starter (on the car duh) are completely different, the only thing similar is that they use a solenoid and starter
EDIT: oh and i have a good sentra starter for anyone who needs one
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