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Removing the starter on that truck shouldn’t be too bad. I prefer to disconnect the wires going to starter first (after disconnecting the negative terminal on the battery of course). Also, before starting the procedure, I ask myself these questions: Are the starter bolts hard to reach? Are there any things in my way (like an exhaust manifold)? If I get the starter unbolted, will there be enough room to get it out? If everything checks out, I get started! 😆
Hope that helps. 😛
Edit: also make sure to take good note of what wires went where on the starter. (perhaps you could take pictures or make labels)
If this is something you want to do, I say do it. At a college I’m attending, there are a lot of older gentlemen in the auto classes (like auto 50). As for getting hired, I believe many employers feel that maturity comes with older age, so they would be more inclined to hire you over a seventeen year old? (just a thought)
Also, if you feel you are physically able to wrench on cars as your career, then I don’t think your age should be a problem! :cheer:
Okay, upon further inspection through the port that Evil-i had mentioned, I saw a good bit of oil pooled up inside of the bellhousing. It also looks like oil has gotten on the clutch and/or pressure plate because oil reside is all around the entire inside of the bellhouse. This truck is about due for a clutch as well, so I went ahead and removed the transmission (it wasn’t to difficult, about a 2 day job and twenty trips to the tool store for different wrenches). I haven’t removed the flywheel yet, but I did notice something strange: there is a large amount of some type of sealing material (like RTV silicone) sitting on the top-left side being covered halfway behind the flywheel. I’ll attach a picture and show you where I saw it.
Later today I plan on quickly removing the flywheel and pilot bearing. When I’m down there I’ll take a better picture and post it on here.
