My car wont start. i think its the starter, but i dont know. THe battery has charge the alternator is fine the fuses are good. When i turn the key it just clicks once and stops. I tried to jump it and that didnt work. Everything else has power so i dont know. Where is the starter? I couldnt find it to see if it had a good connection. What do you guys think?? Its an automatic.

maybe the ground that connects to starter its connected to long bolt that goes allway through it.

where is the starter at on the car

left rear of engine under car https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...R#>/mellow.png

thanks man. so what about the bolt??

tap on starter while u have it in crank position

ill try that

sounds like a bad connection or starter

i hope so man

is that drivers or passengers side

Driver's side.

thanks. im gonna go try to fix it. do you think that i will be able to ??

ok i tried. it didnt work. i tried to get the whole starter off but the bolts were too tight for my little muscles!! i checked to see if it was getting power and it was. i dont know what should i do now?

Crank harder, take it off, take it to the local parts store they can test it.

Use a long breaker bar...wuss. :P

Yea I keep my breaker bars in the tool box... that is what airtools are for LOL

hahaha well, theres not much room under there. i dont know if a breaker bar would fit or an airgun. if i can get that bad boy off i will get it checked out.

Jack it up, pretty much anytime you gotta do something on the underside you are jacking.

i did jack it up. there still isnt much room.

i guess ill try to get it again. ill work out a little and get my biceps pumpin, maybe that will help

A breaker bar should fit under there. 2 bolts and the starter is out.



I would check to make sure the engine will turn over by hand...

turn over by hand what do you mean?

what about the starter solenoid?



Otherwise take it off and run it up to a parts store to be checked....

My guess is the clicking he is hearing is the solenoid....

push start it!

You can also try jumping the starter its self. just put pos. to pos. neg to neg. and see what happens. On the 89 chassis its a shorty bolt on the lower right of the starter, and a long bolt coming from the engine compartment with a nut on the tranny side(upper left starter bolt). If you wedge a wrench on the bolt side and let it turn aginst the engine block, you can crank the **** out of it from the tranny side.

If you use long extensions it should fit. One way to do it with a regular wrench is to bang the wrench with a hammer.

His car is an automatic.

His car is an automatic.[/quote]

Yeah, you would have to push that fu@ker forever! ROFLMAO.



A 12 point, 14mm socket w/ a breaker bar should do it, after you have snugged up the wrench against the block, on the engine compartment side. The nut should come off the tranny side with ease and leave you with no nuckle busters

His car is an automatic.[/quote]

yeah i dont think i can run at 30 mph while pushing a car, although i have been training for the worlds strongest man competition so ill give it a try!

His car is an automatic.[/quote]

yeah i dont think i can run at 30 mph while pushing a car, although i have been training for the worlds strongest man competition so ill give it a try![/quote]

you can do it mario lopez

i think that i could pull it better. i will just hook up a rope to my tow hook and start running. If i never come in here anymore its because i died trying to start the car when it was 105 degrees outside.

ok i ordered the solenoid. How hard will this be to put on with the starter off of the car.

ok i got the starter off that was fun

its kind of a bitch huh. You must remember the rx-7 was engineered buy little asian ppl. I think 4 or 5 can fit under the hood without touching each other. LOL

that clears a lot of stuff up! Maybe i should find some of those peeps to put this thing back on!

nah, just get some trained monkeys to do it

You should be able to grab the belts or put a wrench on the alt pulley and turn the motor over.

oh ok i see

would it be better to take off the brace that is bolted up between the frame that kind of goes under the starter?