Changing a dying or failed starter in your 2000 Chevrolet S-10 pickup is a repair capacity the sample owner can bring about. Although there is not all the more in the hang-up, you Testament compulsion to remove one or besides components to dividend access to the unit, depending on your specific engine model. Nonetheless, armed with a few common tools, you can take care of the problem and change the starter right in your driveway in a couple of hours or less.
Instructions
Removing the Old Starter
1. Park your S-10 on level ground, lift the hood and disconnect the ground (black) battery cable with a wrench.
2. Loosen the front, passenger's-side wheel lug nuts with a lug wrench, if you have the two-wheel drive, 4.3L engine model S-10.
3. Raise and support the front of your pickup with a floor jack and set a safety stand on each side under the frame for support.
4. Remove the front, passenger's-side wheel, if you have the two-wheel drive, 4.3L engine model S-10. This will give better access to the starter motor.
5. Put your safety glasses on, crawl under the engine and remove the dust shield from under the engine with a ratchet, ratchet extension and socket, if your S-10 comes equipped with them.
6. Disconnect the front exhaust pipe with a breaker bar and socket and move it aside. This pipe connects to the exhaust manifold. Remove the tubular brace that connects to the engine on one side and to the clutch housing on the other, under the starter motor. Use a ratchet, ratchet extension and socket. This step applies to the 2.2L engine model.
7. Disconnect the wire and cable from the back of the solenoid with a wrench, if you have the 2.2L or 4.3L two-wheel driver S-10 model. The solenoid is the small cylinder mounted on top of the starter.
8. Remove the two nuts and bolt holding the bracket to the end of the starter, if you have the 2.2L engine model. Use a ratchet and socket.
9. Loosen the two starter mounting bolts with a ratchet, ratchet extension and socket. Hold the starter firmly with one hand and finish removing the bolts. As you remove the starter from the vehicle, pay attention to any shims positioned between the starter and the engine, so that you replace them in their original location and direction.
10. Rotate the starter motor after removing the mounting bolts, if you have the 4.3L, four-wheel drive S-10 model. Disconnect the wire and cable from the back of the solenoid with a wrench and remove the starter from the vehicle.
18. Lower your pickup off the safety stands with the floor jack.19.
Connect the wire and cable to the back of the solenoid with the wrench and then rotate the starter with the wire connections facing away from you.
12. Hold the starter firmly in its mounting position along with the shims, if equipped, and install the two mounting bolts finger tight. Tighten the bolts to 32 foot-pounds (43 Nm) on the 2.2L model and 37 foot-pounds (50 Nm) on the 4.3L two- and four-wheel drive models. Use a torque wrench, ratchet extension and socket.
13. Replace the bracket on the end of the starter motor with the ratchet and socket, if you have the 2.2L engine model.
14. Connect the wire and cable to the rear of the solenoid with the wrench, if you have the 2.2L or 4.3L two-wheel drive S-10 model.
15. Replace the tubular brace with the ratchet, ratchet extension and socket and the front exhaust pipe with the breaker bar and socket, if you have the 2.2L engine model.
16. Reinstall the dust shield with the ratchet, ratchet extension and socket, if your S10 comes equipped with it.
17.Reinstall the front, passenger's-side wheel, if you have the two-wheel drive, 4.3L engine model S-10 and tighten the lug nuts with the lug wrench just enough to hold the wheel flat against the wheel hub.
Installing the New Starter
11. Position the starter near its mounting position with the rear of the starter facing you, if you have the 4.3L, four-wheel drive S-10 model.Finish tightening the lug nuts on the front, passenger's-side wheel, if you have the two-wheel drive, 4.3L model S-10.
20. Reconnect the ground (black) battery cable with the wrench and close the hood.
