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The thing you're attempting to remove looks like two cans hooked together--a big one, and a little one with two wires coming out of it. Unhook the battery, first of all. Next, jack up the car and put it on jackstands. The starter lives on the right-hand side of the transmission, about six inches back of the drive axle. You need a 13mm wrench and a 17mm wrench to get it out, and you MIGHT need a set of vise grips. Once you get the car jacked up, open the hood and feel behind the engine shroud on the right side. You will find a 17mm nut. Two bolts hold the starter in, and this nut's on one of them. Try to remove it. If you're lucky, the last owner of your car welded a small bolt to the head of the bolt your nut's attached to--the small bolt will keep the big bolt from spinning around and around when you take the nut off. If you start removing the nut and it comes off, you've got this setup in your car. If you start removing the nut and the thing spins round and round and doesn't come off, clamp the vise grips to the nut, then crawl under with the 17mm wrench and remove this bolt plus the nut on the bottom of the starter. (Then take the bolt and a $10 bill to any welding shop and have the guy dig a little bolt out of the garbage, lay it sideways on top of the bolthead, and weld it on. So long as the head of the little bolt is sticking off the side of the big bolt, so it hits the transmission when it turns, it will work fine. Tell the guy it's a bolt for a starter, and he'll know what you want.) Anyway, once that bolt is out, unhook the two wires. One is held on with a 13mm nut; the other is a push-on and you can remove it with your fingers. And finally, hold the starter with one hand while removing the other 17mm nut. When it's out, pull the starter free and lower it. When you reinstall it, I like to pull the top bolt through and stick the tip of a flat-tip screwdriver in the threads. This will help you to get the nut screwed onto the bolt because it will keep you from pushing the bolt back in.
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