I need my starter to start my car by this weekend. It has other plans though. With vigorous beatings it will start turning the car over. Does anyone know how to open one of these dammed things? I need to at least try and fix this one as I'm not sure when the local flaps will get one in. So anybody got an idea? Are other ones that will work in it's place that the local shops might carry?

The Nissan Factory engineers knew how and they even wrote instructions and drew pictures for people servicing their own cars. It will take some manual effort though. Good luck. Hint - it's an electrical component.

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Why thank you! I hear people talk of the FSM but did't know where to find it.

Nothing like that feeling when at 2am after disasembling cleaning, and reasembling your starter you wander out to your brothers subaru pop the hood and use his battery to bench test your work, and it actually wings over for once.

That sounds like a good nights work, congrats

Charles

What did you find inside? Any pictures?

Not many people refurbish their starters, although I did take mine apart to figure out an odd noise, which turned out to be the bushing in the nose about to fall out.

it was dirty as hell inside, and had some rust but it was pretty easy to do. the car sat for 12 years so it wasn't very nice inside.