How to Install a Starter on a 2000 Ford Contour V-6

Iskandar Blogger 9:51 PM

Ford offered the Contour from 1995 to 2000 and eventually replaced the mid-sized sedan with the Fusion in 2005. Offered with a 2.5-Liter Duratec V-6, the 2000 Contour relied on a small, transaxle-mounted starter motor for the initial torque to start the engine. Common causes of starter malfunction in the Contour included electrical shorts and mechanic failure that prevented the Bendix gear from ejecting to turn the Duratec's flywheel. If you turn the key and hear a whirring noise but the Contour doesn't start, or nothing happens but you have electrical power, odds are the starter has failed.

Instructions

    1

    Park the 2000 Ford Contour on a flat surface. Set the parking brake.

    2

    Open the Contour's hood. Unhook the negative battery cable from the battery terminal using a battery wrench. Isolate the battery cable end.

    3

    Remove the Contour's air cleaner assembly. Pull the fuel lines out of the fuel line support bracket over the transaxle.

    4

    Unbolt the fuel line support bracket with a socket set. Remove the bracket from the engine bay.

    5

    Detach the gearshift cable retaining bracket from the transaxle using the socket set. Move the bracket and cable aside.

    6

    Unbolt the air cleaner assembly support bracket using the socket set. Pull the bracket out of the engine bay.

    7

    Remove the nuts holding the starter cables to the starter using a socket set. Pull the cables off the starter.

    8

    Remove the retaining bolt at the rear of the starter using the socket set. Remove the remaining two starter bolts with the socket set. Lift the starter off the transaxle.

    9

    Set the new starter in place, ensuring to slide the alignment studs into their mounting holes. Install the three starter retaining bolts using the socket set.

    10

    Bolt the starter cables to the rear of the new starter using the socket set. Bolt the air cleaner bracket in with the socket set.

    11

    Bolt the gear shift cable bracket to the transaxle with the socket set. Reinstall the fuel line support bracket and fuel lines in reverse of how you removed them.

    12

    Reinstall the air cleaner assembly. Reconnect the negative battery cable. Close the hood.