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Swapping starters on a 1974 Valiant (Dodge Dart)
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Feb 4, 2025
Let's do a fifteen minute starter swap! Putting in the correct 1970s starter to replace a 1960s unit on this slant six Plymouth.
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how you doing I'm Brian Cel we're going
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to swap out a starter here first you
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want to do disconnect the negative
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battery terminal you don't want to short
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out anything cuz that' be a bad thing
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end up leeding into fires and all kinds
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of bad other stuff a lot ofs so what we
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have here is this starter right here if
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you can see
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it that's a 1969 and earlier starter you
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can tell by the solenoid area right here
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1979 up has two little bolt-on
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areas okay here's a correctly restored
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one that I did for Dave as you can
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see the 1970 and Up Style has two little
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ears that bolt on the 1969 and earlier
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style did not so we're going to be
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putting this one in one second so as I
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said you disconnect the negative uh
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battery terminal so you don't get any
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Sparks
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a
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got the wire off just move that up and
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out of the
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way 11:32 and a/2 in uh sockets we'll
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take that off no
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problem right now let's get the nuts and
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the bolts off the H starter in place
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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now that we have the electrical
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connectors out of the way moved up there
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going to remove that bolt and that nut
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and then the starter will come right out
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fortunately this is a slant 6 engine car
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otherwise you'd have to go from
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underneath for a uh big block and a
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small block
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we still do not have an answer for our
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last question and that was what kind of
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car was a
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little we all know super what is the
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back
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1116
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socket with a
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nut to get the bolt
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R
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better more now for your would never I
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had before I had 38 I had had
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okay and here we have it out I'll lay
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him side by side so you can see the
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differences now this is was talking put
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this one
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down 69 and
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older 69 or 70 and
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newer so you see the minor differences
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between the two
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work work on a couple of
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thirs ready line one ready line one
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yeah yeah yeah
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all right pause that for a second
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should go in it came the old one came
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out into a little bit of problems this
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starter here is a little bit
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[Music]
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bigger the only difference that we had
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to do we have to move the downshift
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linkage off of the
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carburetor now we can start boting this
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back
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in keep in mind if your car's an
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automatic you're going to have a uh
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little bit of a shim that's on there
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okay Vinnie from new
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[Music]
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MILF reinstallation is basically in
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reverse order of what we took it out
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I got a swivel on here I may need to use
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a uh open-ended wrench sometimes
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depending upon clearance this snugged up
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and then I'll get out of wrench
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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just knock that down
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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back on and then we're pretty much good
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to go after we hook up the wiring
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vehicle where you cannot reach it
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[Music]
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easily okay the bottom one snug all we
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have to do is hook up the electrical
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connections and then hook up the
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downshift uh rod and we should be done
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now these look pretty clean but as habit
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I have I'm going to take a little bit of
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sandpaper just to clean up the
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connections we don't have any gemel to
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worry about what two companies form for
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American Motors AMC our next question
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1954 what two companies merg to former
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American Motors you see some AFC
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products out here you know the answer
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okay got a
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universal joint long
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R
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okay if you want to come over here and
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view it we're all done
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