What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?

pishta said
New starter and front motor mount In the Caravan. Old starter passed all test at Autozone but did not kick out (mounted) or nearly as quick as an out of the box rebuilt they had in stock on the tester. $144 and an hour later and its in and working. When I took the bottom bracket out, the front motor mount fell apart. That **** was $77 by itself! It was $22 online but I could not wait and vatozone would not price match it. I believe the power steering pump is leaking at the high pressure fitting. Do they use a o-ring or copper or nylon washer there? Maybe its just in need of a washer?
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thats what i hate about having starters or alternators bench tested, they almost always show good even when they arent. I dont even bother having stuff checked anymore by the parts store. Also seems like its getting hard to find good reman parts, here in the last few weeks at work ive sent 2 starters back to oreillys, two different vehicles. on one the terminal for the solenoid was already corroded and had god awful crimp around the wire with no heat shrink and the copper strands in the wire were already turning green. Second starter for a different vehicle was bad out of the box, starter would turn the bendix but wouldnt kick it out. In both vehicles we sent them back to oreillys and got starters from napa with no issues. Just did a starter on a hyandai santa fe yesterday and i didnt fool around, got a starter from napa because i didnt want to fool around with one from oreillys. No issue with it and worked like its supposed to.