starter motor repair kit

[tomtrux]

From roughtrax for £36 has anyone tried one and are they any good? Mine keeps jamming so a service could do the job?! Doea anyone know if its a "kitchen table" job or is it a bit tricky?? Cheers

[Hazzo]

kitchen table, once you get it off the truck. H

[Nick V]

The kit is fine. Did mine recently, and once you have removed the s/motor which can be a bit tricky, it's about a 15 minute job to replace the bits.

Cheers, Nick

[tomtrux]

Great, thanks guys

[Webbo]

I have fitted this kit from RT and it is an easy job to do, if in doubt take step by step piccys, or look up a very good how to from I think Apache..

[Black Sheep]

Just had RT kit fitted last week. Surf now starts first time although my local garage claim removing the starter motor was a "f*cking bitch"!!!

[Apache]

Its easy on the 3.0. No idea what its like on the 2.4.

[tomtrux]

Oh joy. To be honest I've not even looked where exactly my starter is situated. In fact my only starter motor experience is removing the one that kept falling out of a diesel clio I had years ago so any more advice would be great. The problem is that sometimes it will click but sound like it hasn't enough power to turn the engine over... (As if its jamming) then I turn it a few more times and away it goes like nothing was wrong!!! Anyone else had this problem?

[Apache]

Anyone else had this problem?

EVERYONE else has that problem sooner or later. It's the starter contacts, as you rightly suspect.

[sabreuk]

done mine back in the summer, the biggest pain was the bolt that holds the starter right at the top of the tranny bell housing its realy tight and i recommend several ext bars and a uj bit aswell as there is no easy way of getting to it, removal after that bolt was a doddle and replacing parts was also doddle refitting was easyier but the same bolt as before is tricky. i also recommend if your doing it on your own you get some one to help its a heavy lump to fall on your napper if you drop the starter as there realy is no room. oh and top tip take passnger side wheel off and you can get the other bolts easy, and the dipstick tube just pulls out and pushes back in once you take the bolt off which can make life easier. i cant vouch for the rt kit but i got my kit off ebay and cost around £12 which comprised of new contatcts and the contact plates mine has had no probs since. heres the ebay link for ya, its a good quality kit aswell. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOYOTA-HI-LUX-...item43a3c636ba
heres a link on how to take starter off and the instructions with the ebay kit are clear and precise on how to replace the bits, hope this helps ya
http://www.toyotasurf.asn.au/techsite/starter.htm

[western uk]

Yeah even i've done this one, was a right $hit to get off but the kit and instructions are easy. Good luck

I bent a spanner to give me a bit more room and held a big ring spanner on top for more leverage. HOPE THAT HELPS IF ITS REALLY STUCK LIKE MINE WAS !

[Webbo]

Just had RT kit fitted last week. Surf now starts first time although my local garage claim removing the starter motor was a "f*cking bitch"!!!

It twas too, but again a very good how to on the Aus tech site, bottom bolt the worst you need about a metre of 1/2 socket extensions and a flexible couple just to fit over the gearbox and bulkhead and wait a couple of weeks for the cuts to heal on your hands and arms.

[tomtrux]

Sounds like its gonna be fun lol. Thanks for all the advice, its really appreciated!!! Any suggestions which is a more appropriate kit for the motor??? Roughtrax or the one mentioned on the last page from ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOYOTA-HI-LUX-...item43a3c636ba ?? Thanks again

[sabreuk]

All you will need is the bushes mate so I'd get the eBay kit the plunger when a ya start depresses and makes contact with the bushes when ya strip yours you will prob find the contacts are worn to shape of the plunger and not making contact, so the eBay kit is the way forward. Rt kit looks like the kit I got off eBay. If you look at the pics on Rt you will see what I mean by being shaped to the plunger. Its upto you though mate I can vauch for the eBay kit I can't for the rt kit.