I finished up my oem starter replacement this morning. I had this orange gasket leftover. Is this orange part included with the new starter?

Perhaps it was from another one of my many projects. Hopefully it doesn't belong here at all ( Trying to be optimistic).

I can't remember which website has a good parts diagram of our cars.


It doesn't seem to fit correctly.












I cut the exhaust bolts off then used my blower to clean the area up. Maybe that's when the orange gasket entered my parts party mess. I'm still hopeful it doesn't belong as I don't want to take all this crap apart again.

 

I don't see that gasket in any of the pics from when I did my starter. How long did it take to cut those bolts off? The space is really tight, I used 2 different size sawzalls and my arms were sore from trying to hold that position on my back.

 

Those water resistant type inserts usually go in the female connector, ie coil packs or injectors, haven't seen one in a starter solenoid connector yet.

 

Thank you guys. I think it was from a spare injector set for my boat. The new starter connector I put on felt slightly loose which got me questioning my work.

The exhaust bolts took a few minutes each to grind off. Initially I started cutting the heads off with a cut off wheel. I slightly nicked the transmission pan with the cut off wheel :/ . I then redirected my efforts toward the nuts to avoid hitting the tranny pan. My plan was to grind away 2 flats on each nut. These bits remove material so fast I decided to turn the entire nut into metal dust.

This job would be so much easier on a lift. My arms and neck were both sore yesterday.

Bits are from harbor freight $40 or so.



These seem to be nice quality. I used one bit for the nuts. It's still sharp. I used the others to cut away a spinning lug nut on my brother in law's car. Saved his rim, but man it was time consuming.

 

Be mindful when driving through standing water. Hopefully, it's never an issue.

 

even in AZ the bolts dont break loose?

 

Right lol . My car has always been in rust free AZ. I think the exhaust temperature has something to do with speeding up corrosion. I let them soak with pb blaster. My impact gun wouldn't budge them. It may have twisted them in half If I kept at it but the entire exhaust was taking a good beating from the impact gun. A breaker bar might have been an option if the car was higher than 10 inches.


I installed stainless bolts as replacements.

To put my mind at ease last night I stopped by Oreillys with my old starter. I plugged in one of their aftermarket electrical plugs. There is no space for any sort of seal ( happy about that). The plug has a tiny amount of in and out play. It must be normal for this starter.

My starter had gotten loud over the past few weeks. It's quiet now just a smooth electric whirr and she's running. Life is good.


Found these after cleaning up.

 

How many miles and what year is the 460? One thing I was told is that the heat can fuse and weld the stuff
also liquid wrench appears to be better than pb blaster

 

2007 195k miles. I did hit a bolt with map gas for a minute. The close quarters had me concerned about lighting the car on fire or myself. It did seem like the bolts were fused to the exhaust.

 

Very glad you got that out. I'm learning new tricks here. I paid $400 for power steering pressure line replacement in labor alone because I couldn't get one those flare fitting out. In retrospect I could have saved money, has I just sawed the line and made myself a flared fitting lol.

It's fun to learn these

 

Thank you. Power steering components on some older cars can be real difficult to access. I don't blame you for paying to have it done. That's one reason I'm a fan of "all in one" electric power steering units like on the LS.