When you take the old starter off….the one that works most of the time still….and you lay it down next to the new used starter that should work all of the time…mark it…or put it somewhere other than next to the new one…or mark it….or remember where you put it…or….

I may have reinstalled the old starter.

You don’t want to be out in the driveway on a cold day….looking at the starters….wondering if there’s any way to remember after the fact which one you just took off….because….just to be smart and to be sure that I didn’t lose it in the driveway…I put the nut back on the positve connection on the old starter…. so that I didn’t lose it in the driveway…..so THAT IT LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE THE NEW USED STARTER.

That is crazy.

So….the good news is that you don’t have to take all the stuff off to do the job that the guy in the video removed.

But…it’s still a painful job….a real pain in the rear.

Anyway…having done that….and knowing the steps to do the job….we’ll have to monitor this starter and how it performs….and…do the job again if it starts acting squirelly….like it would if I spent the morning taking off and re-installing the same starter.

That’s what you want your wife to know when she’s driving the van around….that it might be fixed.

“Might be” is the story of the moment a lot these days.

“Might be” is never something that you want to say out loud, though.

But….then again…I might have put the new used starter on the car and all this conjecture is just me being typically nervous about everything.

Maybe that’s what happened.