How to get to the starter and how to remove it?

JASON28RICH

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2002 CHEVROLET TRACKER
V6
4WD
AUTOMATIC
170,000 MILES

Need a diagram or something showing the proper way to remove a starter from the vehicle listed above. I have been walking to work for the past week and a half, please help me fix this. I know where the starter is just not how to go about it and what to do first. It was very rusty underneath, so I might have to take it somewhere just for that to use air tools. Thank you in advance.

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KEN L

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You will need to do the job from under the car so you will need to jack up the car. Here is a guide to help:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/jack-up-and-lift-your-car-safely

Here is a generic guide to help with the job with specific instructions for your car in the diagrams below:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-replace-a-starter-motor

Check out the diagrams (below). Let us know what happens and please upload pictures or videos of the problem.

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Saturday, May 28th, 2022 AT 7:29 PM

JASON28RICH

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I'm sorry but this doesn't really help. I don't know what angle in the diagram I'm looking from. I need step by step with photos or video to fully see how to and where to finagle the starter out from if I even can get past the rusted bolts. Thank you and I mean no disrespect I just don't understand.

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Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 AT 6:25 AM

JASON28RICH

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All I get when I turn the key is click, click, click. Click, click, click. It sounds like a bad battery I have seen in videos but as I said we replaced the battery. More of a faster clicking noise not a hard click.

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Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 AT 9:40 AM

KEN L

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These are all the diagrams we have for this car; can you upload pictures or a video so I can walk you through it? Also let's load test the battery by following this guide:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/car-battery-load-test

You may have a bad ground cable to the engine block or positive battery cable. Let me know

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Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 AT 11:31 AM