Possible Starter issue with 98 Corolla

Greetings.

I have begun to have issues whith starting the car.
I turn the key and it only clicks. I turn it again and it fires right
up.
Now, it takes more turns for the starter to engadge.
I thought maybe it was a contacts issue with the battery terminals.
Cleaned and replaced, same thing.
Now it sounds like maybe I need to replace the starter before I am
stranded somewhere.

2 questions.

First, does that sound like the right asessment, that its the starter?
Second, can someone point me to a url that shows how to pull and
replace
the starter?

Thanks in advance.

I just had the same problem. It was the starter solenoid.

On my 93 Corolla, (267,000 km) the copper contacts in the solenoid wore away
(the arcing as they open and close in normal wear, I think). Then the
starter became hit-and-miss.

For a few bucks the electrical rebuilder gave me a copper contact bolt
almost the same as the original.
Removing the starter was simple and disassembly very easy. Problem solved!

I would have liked to flip over the (centre) piston contact (looks like a
copper washer), or to replace it, however I can't figure out how to get it
off the piston. The solenoid piston comes up to form a bridge for the
current, so it gets the other half of the arcing & erosion.

Good luck!


Jack

Ralph wrote:[color=blue]
> On my 93 Corolla, (267,000 km) the copper contacts in the
> solenoid wore away (the arcing as they open and close in normal
> wear, I think). Then the starter became hit-and-miss.[/color]

I've replaced contacts twice on a Corolla starter, reusing the plunger.
It seems that the main problem is *uneven* wearing of the contacts.
[url]http://www.off-road.com/toyota/tech/starter/[/url]