OT Olds Aurora????

[pikewi]

I have been able to work on my 9N thanks to this forum. I used to work on cars all the time when thay still resembled machines. Anyways, my sons girlfriends starter apparently died on her olds aurora with the V8 engine. (1997) They are strapped for cash at the present so I volunteered to slide my old self underneath and unbolt it and check it out. As always I first would unhook the battery which after an hour of searching I found was under the back seat. Lookin' pretty proffesional now hey? Well now lets get that starter out. Couple hours of searching and those of you familiar with this vehicle know where I finally found that! I don't know if I dare continue on with this project or not. I want my 56 chevy back!!

 

[Ed S.]

You accurately described why my next two vehicles will be a 1969 F-100 pickup and a 1962 VW Beetle, both of which I already own - they just need a rebuild... which I can do myself!

es

 

[gahorN]

Changing the oil on my wife's 2005 Buick Century with a 3.1 V-6 --- just about welded my oil-filter wrench to the starter and blew up the battery. Those idiots have the oil-filter within 1-inch of an unprotected (no boot) battery-terminal on the starter solenoid, and the angle at which it is built virtually guarantees you'll hit it with anything you use to loosen that filter. Furthermore they installed the filter upside-down in order to guarantee that you'll end up with a shirt-sleeve full of oil and a half-pint of oil on the ground or floor. :evil:

 

[duey]

So if it is the Northstar V8, I"m guessing it is under the INTAKE manifold...

Pretty much out of the way there... and tough to get at...

duey

 

[pikewi]

correctomundo duey! (on both counts)
Now that I am in there I find oil up to the bottom of the starter. Can that be right?

 

[FatTony]

Don't feel too bad. I have a '98 Caddy STS and received the call from my proooo-feshunull mechanic asking the location of the !@#$%^ battery when I left it for the dreaded 100,000 mile service.

 

[JjEjFjF]

(quoted from post at 14:37:52 09/27/09) Don't feel too bad. I have a '98 Caddy STS and received the call from my proooo-feshunull mechanic asking the location of the !@#$%^ battery when I left it for the dreaded 100,000 mile service.

Are you surprised he had to ask you? Im not. Thats why i do most everything on my own stuff. I cant do any worse then them.

 

[Barry in ON]

PIKEWI, don't feel bad about the battery as it can sometimes be a real challenge to find it. The only place we haven't found one yet in our shop is in the headliner. They range from the left inner wheel well, behind and under the right headlamp, under the back seat, various locations in the trunk, under the washer bottle to the normal behind the rad wall near the engine. Next try finding the thermostat on some of these new engines.
Cheers, Barry