starter is going south.truck will start fine 9 out of 10 times but i will get a click once in a while and after the 15th click it will start.i have replaced a lot of marine 5.9 and 8.3 startes but the truck looks a little more difficult.any tips?

 

Requires 12 point socket for removal, cant remember what size. Did mine couple months ago, easy job.

 

10 mm

dont replace the starter - get new contacts from Larry B

 

Get a 10mm gear wrench, way easier than a ratchet, faster than a box end wrench.

 

I agree with Dr Evil! Save yourself some $$$ and just do the contacts. It's a super easy job and you'll get another 194k out of it! I think mine failed around 134k if I remember right.

 

finally replaced my starter last week, it went thru 2 sets of contacts, and 517,000kms of starts, 220,000kms of delivery service use, likely stopped and started 20+ times a day for 3.5yrs

 

Those bolts are tight on there. I had to put a piece of 2x4 on a jack to get one of the bolts off

 

The top one is the real beach to get out. I went through the top of the motor bay, very long extension, u-joint and a 1/2"drive impact gun. Took it out no problem. You can even reverse the process to get the bolt started on the new one - just start - do NOT tighten with the impact gun. That you gotta do from underneath.

Cheers!

Mike

 

I have had to re and re starter on my truck a number of times. 2x for starter and 2 more replacing crankshaft position sensor. I have tried on a hoist, but find it much easier with the truck on the ground lying on a creeper. I undo the top bolt first, than the lower two. If you don't loosen the bottom bolts, you can crack the top (awkward to reach one) bolt and then twiddle it loose with your fingers. Lower bolts are easy to reach. 10 mm box wrench works fine for me although I did have to use a pipe for leverage as the 10mm is a bit short and the bolts are tight.
Alan

 

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