4.0L Engine
- Disconnect and isolate negative battery cable.
- Raise and support vehicle.
- Remove lower bolt (forward facing) securing starter motor to transmission housing (Fig 1
).
- While supporting starter motor, remove upper bolt (rearward facing) securing starter motor to transmission housing.
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- Lower starter motor from front of transmission housing far enough to access and remove nut securing battery positive cable eyelet terminal to starter solenoid B(+) terminal stud (Figure
). Always support starter motor during this process. Do not let starter motor hang from wire harness.
- Remove battery positive cable eyelet terminal from solenoid B(+) terminal stud.
- Disconnect solenoid terminal wire harness connector from connector receptacle on the starter solenoid.
- Remove starter motor from transmission housing.