How To Replace Starter 1992-2000 Chevy Tahoe

Okay, friends, the first thing we have to do to get started on our job is to remove our negative battery terminal from the battery. Once that's off, we're just gonna set it so it's very far away from the terminal end. Now we can move along. Now that the battery's disconnected, we're gonna get underneath the passenger side of the truck. Right on the engine's where you're gonna find your starter mounting.

There's gonna be two mounting bolts that we're gonna remove. But before we do that, we need to remove two wires from the actual starter itself. You're gonna have this larger wire right here, which is very easy to see, and then right above that, you're gonna have a smaller wire. Let's remove the pair. Get that wire out of the way, and let's continue on to the smaller wire. All right, that little wire off of there.

Now, let's move along to our two mounting bolts. There's our starter, friends. Now, that we have the starter out of the way, we need to make sure that we clean up the mating ends where both these wires are gonna connect onto the starter. Go ahead and use a piece of sandpaper or whatever you've got. We'll get them so they're a nice clean surface, and then we'll continue.

Now, before we can go ahead and put in our brand-new starter here, let's go ahead and remove this shield off the old starter, and then just transfer it right over to the new one. Make sure it lines up right here. And let's get this over to the truck. Let's go ahead and get this starter up and in here, start with the backside up first. I'm gonna bring this around. Slide this in.

Now, let's start in both of our bolts. We'll snug them up and then we'll torque them to 33-foot pounds. Let's just take these mounting nuts off of here. Now, if you just use a magnet, you can go ahead and remove the washers as well. So now we're gonna go ahead and put that small wire back on there first. You're gonna notice you have a nut, a regular flat washer, and of course, a lock washer.

Essentially, we wanna make sure we get the wire on there. We're gonna use the flat washer, then the lock washer, and then we're gonna go ahead and snug it up with the nut. Okay. I've got that bottomed out. At this point, all we're gonna do is just take it a tiny bit past that, but you wanna be very careful not to over-tighten this because it's a very small stud and if you break it off, well, you need to go ahead and replace the starter again.

Okay. So it stopped right there. I'm just gonna give it a teeny bit more. Give the wire a nice wiggle just to make sure it's completely secured. And now let's do the same to the larger wire. Once again, we'll put the wire on there. We're gonna use the flat washer, then the lock washer, and then the nut. Okay? So it's bottomed out. Just give it a teeny bit more. Give the wire a nice wiggle. Okay. So this looks good.

One last thing I wanna point out real quick is you wanna make sure you don't have this metal end of your wire touching up against the starter, in which case it would be grounding out the power aspect of your wire. So now let's just go ahead and reconnect that negative battery terminal. All right. So that's nice and snug. Let's give the wire a nice wiggle, make sure it's a hundred percent secured. Okay, friends, you got your starter in there. Great job. Now all you have to do is start up the truck, take it for a road test.