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Originally Posted by rph1974
It will be FAR easier to reinstall everything, than it was to take it all apart. Seems like we all agree that the driver's side starter bolt is a major PITA. I wish that I could be more specific here, but you can move that wiring harness that is in the way of that bolt. My buddy did that part, so I don't have an exact location, but he mentioned that the wiring harness had bolted to the transmission housing, and removal of it allowed us to move the wiring out of the way and gave us direct access to that damn bolt.
Hope the rest of the job goes smoothly from here!
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rph1974,
I agree with you about moving the wiring harness; however, I couldn't even get to IT to move it out of the way! I'm sure I must have been missing a mounting bolt or something, but until I came up with the idea of the extensions, I thought I was going to have to have the truck towed to someone else........thank goodness that didn't happen!
In any event, you're right about the reassembly. Once the starter was reinstalled (it was as of my last post), the reinstallation of the intake, etc. was a piece of cake! NOTE: One thing I did on this job that I've not done before was to mark the removal of things. By this, I mean that, due to the number of plugs, hoses, etc. that have not been present on most of the other previous jobs like this I've done, I marked parts with tape. Every time I'd take something loose or remove a part, I marked the place of removal with a piece of blue painter's masking tape. This was done not to show me what went there - it was simply to remind me that something had not been reconnected or replaced in that spot....once all of the blue tape markers were gone, everything had been replaced......I did this just to make sure I didn't leave small items, like the rear ground wire, a vacuum hose, etc., disconnected..............worked great!
One final time: thanks to the great writeups here on jobs like this! While the job could have been done by figuring it out as I went along, having the opportunity to read about the disassembly/reassembly here before starting the job was a H-U-G-E time saver! (Not to mention that this forum identified what was wrong with my truck in the first place!)
dnp