Carpentology » do it yourself http://rjcarpenter.com ... when 140 characters just isn't enough Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:10:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How not to Change a Starter http://rjcarpenter.com/2007/12/02/how-not-to-change-a-starter/ http://rjcarpenter.com/2007/12/02/how-not-to-change-a-starter/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:54:17 +0000 Ron http://rjcarpenter.com/2007/12/02/how-not-to-change-a-starter/ Continue reading →]]> The starter in my truck has been going for a while. I mean a year. So it really should not have been a shock to me that it finally reached a point where it was no longer reliable. (By that I mean I could still clutch start it, but there is not always a downhill grade nearby.)

Fast forward two months. (Yes, I let it sit that long. Good thing I work from home a lot.)

I was intent upon fixing it myself. Changing a starter is not really that technical, and it would save me a couple hundred dollars. That is until I got started. I decided I was not adept enough to handle this on my own and enlisted the help of a friend. About a half hour into the project we decided that we were really not sure that we could get the new starter on.

I ended up taking it to the dealer as they gave me the best estimate (shocking, I know.) I pulled into the garage at the dealership and they asked to turn off the truck. I asked the guy if he was sure about that and he said, “Oh, you’re the guy with the starter.”

I LOL’d.

I really hate paying someone else to do these types of things. I hate it even more when I have to pay them for reasons other than the fact that I am too busy.

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