Honda Accord - Starter/Battery Harness Replacement
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- In a previous video • So You Think It Needs ... I diagnosed this non cranking Honda as a bad battery cable. It had some serious voltage drop...like all of it. You folks expressed interest in seeing the replacement cable put in and of course wanted to hear the engine crank. So, here we go.
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Don't worry, Eric... The loyal SMA subs know your diagnostic style and appreciate it. I'm willing to bet most of the people making those comments haven't spent 10 minutes working on a car.
Well every once in awhile their parents let them borrow the car so they may have put gas in it before. Or even filled up the washer jug all by themselves.
@@SouthMainAuto They may have filled the washer jug, but probably used blinker fluid.
@@SouthMainAuto Most of the time it's the "Haynes Jockeys". The closest thing they have been to working on a car is to change the air freshener
I used to eat lunch with the mechanics.
are we abusing the people who use haynes manuals or the people that wear the slacks ?
both are better than nothing.
also don’t give away your last cars haynes manual when you sell the car cause
it will quarantee one of your kids will buy that same car model
doh
Saying you had to torque the fuses to factory spec had me literally laughing out loud! Great as always!!
Fortunately he always does that off-camera!
The joe biden "c'mon man" got me going
he forgot to check the blinker fluid though. that's points off at the car show.
6 watt meter torques
Eric doesn't really need to pretend anymore. We all get it. It's funnier when he makes a clicking sound when tightening a bolt with an open end wrench.
You're not fooling me. You went around and cleaned all the grounds off camera. :-)
Even on the 2nd distribution breaker panel in the Shop.
yeah, while he was torqueing everything to spec
@@fredflintstone8048 "-), good one......
He even found and reinstalled the battery hold down, classy fella!
Just another one of the no-cost services SMA provides!
What the heck was the hold down doing where he found it?!
@@markh.6687Whoever removed it probably set it on the radiator and it fell off. Then decided it wasn’t important enough to search for.
@@NBSV1 I'll buy that answer.
@@markh.6687
I guess someone removed the old battery, set the hold down on top op the engine cover and forgot all about it.
I'm so glad you got all of those electrical connectors torqued down to factory specs. You're the man.
Always!
@@SouthMainAuto Was that alternator bolt 5 or 10 ugganugga's?
@@The_Noticer.That alternator bolt is half a dugga tops. Trust me I've snapped a stud in my early years
Saw your daughter on just recently and I was surprised to see just how tall she has becomeas she gets older. My wife and I celebrate our 72nd Wedding anniversary on July 4th, it dosen't seen that long ago. Great result with the Honda Starter. Carl.
Congratulations!
Echoing what folks have said before, yeah, we want to see a cable replacement video(!) because we like hanging out with you in the garage. It’s that simple. It’s a digital version of working on something with your buddies.
I watch Eric O for the same reason I watch Stephen Curry, and LeBron James. I have seen each sink a thousand baskets and yet I still want more. If Eric O posted a brake job every day I would watch them every day.
Agreed. Not everything has to be a diagnostic puzzle. We just like hanging out shooting the shit while fixing stuff
My 06 Accord is the finest car I’ve ever owned. 197k, accident free, original owner.
Lovely, I hope/wish trouble free ride and not a single rusty area on it🎉
06 TSX here and same! Best car I've ever owned and I've had a couple.
Those 2.4s are great engines, no flaws.
07 Accord SE , did all maintenance from new, 334K on clock. I wish i could purchase a new car with the K2.4 !
2:35 Hearing that clink made me chuckle.
The only thing more annoying is the phone alarm.
Must have been a 10
And then followed by “hey it’s that guy” driving by..
There's a part 2, huzzah!
19:35 I didn't think you were lying pop pop, never doubted your diagnosis. Just wanted to see a shiny new cable installed, I'm easily amused 🤷♂
Shiny Cable! Me too!
Mmmmm shiny
Eric must have the strongest back muscles in town, leaning over cars is hard !! 💪
I did it for 36 years. I can barely walk some days now
@@deansapp4635 that's too bad . I'm sure your family appreciated your hard work .
my thoughts exactly as I watched this one
@@kenj.8897 Thanks, I still do the occasional side jobs for family and neighbors but im much slower these days
@@deansapp4635know what you mean still try and do our own but what use to take an hour to do now takes all day. It sucks to have the knowledge but our bodies are worn out
2:34 Dropping the bolt reminded me of finding a 10mm Snap-On 3/8" 6-Point Flank Drive Socket in the parking lot of my grocery store. A mechanic must have dropped it, forgot about it, and it fell out there, for me to find!
Surprised you didn't start a gold rush!
Hey that was my socket, I lost it.
Scott claims that in order to do a job like this properly, you have to yell, “Pile!” when throwing those bad parts on the floor. I don’t know what happens when you don’t, but I try not to risk it. I am glad to see that nobody got hurt while filming or crossing the fairway or whatever.
As a kid growing up in Buffalo NY in the 60s it was standard practice to always start by inspecting& cleaning battery terminals because batteries were a lot more leaky back then. Another common fix was to disassemble the solenoid and flip over the big round moving contactor when the primary side of it got too chewed up from arcing. And of course everybody knew the solenoid screwdriver trick as a last resort.😁❤
There you go again saving the customer money, time and another trip to the shop!! ( battery holddown)!
Eric, I wanted to kind of laugh when you made the comment that people wanted to watch you put this wiring loom in. I guess you can put me in that category lol. Believe it or not. It’s nice to watch someone else do the exact same type of work, I do all day every day.
I guess ultimately why I enjoy watching your channel is the humor factor. I’ll come home from a really bad day at work as we all do at times. And it’s nice to watch you work with your sense of humor. It kind of makes what was a bad day Into a good evening. No no no, I’m not sucking up lol. I am more or less giving you a hard time. I hope you can relate. Your friend, Ron, Lib California.
Sme here buddy. Retired car/truck mechanic. It compares to a gynecologist watching porn . bwahaha sick
What part of California, Ron? I'm in San Diego. Over the last 40+ years, I made and installed wire harnesses for God only knows how many cars of all sorts (insert wayyy too many emojis)!
@@billh230 Modesto,Ca
What I like with all your videos is you always do it right. Nothing left to guess. You always do the right thing.
Very nice!😀 I really liked the "Special-A" Canadian No-Ox. Also liked when you smoked the battery connection in the first video. Keep 'em coming.
Y'all know how to spell the name of the country? C - eh? - N - eh? - D - eh? 🏒
Honda wanted the smoke....SMA gave it the SMOKE son!
I would hire you knowing that the job is done right no question.
---> Really good advice about removing the intake to access the starter . I had to replace a bad knock sensor on my 06 Accord about a month ago , and after trying many shortcuts found here on the Tube , I finally relented and moved the intake out of the way. Much easier than the "easy way" and less painful . And on balance , the time to do the job the recommended way was shorter than the shortcut way . Live and learn .
I'm glad you said southern car because I was trying to figure out how a NYS car over 10 years old was still on the road. This car has to be at least 17 years old. My mother lives in NC and she has one of these with 70,000 miles and it looks brand new.
What he doesn't say is he means upstate New York. Downstate New York has much much less of assault issue
@@kevinbarry71 Thanks
Did a similar repair on a 1964 Ford Galaxy. Nicked Starter cable dissolved and the insulation looked ok. My Dad told me to give it a hard tug and it almost broke in my hands. SALT SUCS
My Dad was an Electrician. Very Sharp Individual. Right then and there I decided that's what I wanted to do for a Living. 54 years Later and I'm still problem solving. 😎 Great Content!
I have seen you make many amazing diagnostic videos and then subsequent repairs - but what amazes me most is how you can disconnect /reconnect so many of the brittle plastic connectors without them breaking into dozen of pieces - now that's a super-power!
I just changed 3 ignition coils on my 2003 Corolla; slow and easy resulted in no broken electrical connectors. (The fourth was changed by a shop when I was out of town and didn't have my scan tool with to figure out what happened when it failed).
Found your channel only about 2 months ago and love to watch your thought process. Wish I had or could find a mechanic that has your integrity here in mid Mo. Keep up the good work. Also like to watch you working with young teens to help them work on there own car.
I just diagnosed and fixed a tractor with a starter problem due to an internally corroded positive battery cable and the diagnoses took me all of about 5 minutes. 4 minutes to walk to my tool box for my volt meter and explain to the customer what a voltage drop test was and 1 minute to actually do the test.
The last time I replaced a starter, it was on a 2007 Civic. It was fairly accessible from underneath, however the top bolt was insanely over-tightened, requiring a long extension out through the wheel well and a long breaker bar. It was not seized, but did take about 300 fp to break loose.
I watched your video about the starter, ignored you, and bought a starter anyway. Lo and behold when I get the old starter off, the positive connector was all crusty and loose, and the starter was probably fine. I replaced it anyway but I'm keeping the old one in case I need it.
Clean it, buzz it with the spare battery, I bet it leaps up in the air with startingness !!
my favourite on these scenarios before pulling parts off for access is the thermal imager, can save lot of time and takes just couple minutes to possibly give a clue on a possible next area to investigate .
He makes it look so easy. That looked like a pain to thread that harness. Great video!
A buddy of mine wanted me to replace the starter on his mother in law’s Northstar Caddy. As many of you know, you have to remove the intake plenum to get to the starter as well. The complaint was sometimes it wouldn’t start when hot. When I pulled the intake, I found the wiring harness connecter was barely together. I showed it to him and told him I was 99% sure that was the problem. He still wanted the starter changed. I was there anyway and she was in her 80s and didn’t need to be stranded, so I did was I told to do.
Sad part is the factory part has a 70% chance of being better than a so called new part nowadays. I go to my areas pick and pull yard frequently for low cost OEM parts that aren't pandemic era trash.
A true American craftsman with knowledge, experience, and smarts. We need more like him, but in all reality, if the car companies had Erics working for them they would probably make a car that never broke down.
I am privileged be your only subscriber who doesn't know it all, already. Every video is a how-to lesson.
I wish I was local to you. I love the way you go about working on vehicles
Thanks Eric. Oh and loved the V8 exhaust note at 11:20
That's what makes you a great mechanic. Replace only what you need to not what you don't. Honesty is the best policy.
Really useful info at the end about pulling the intake and throttle body
Detective Eric O solves another Honda crime
I used to do all the things he said not to do... Turns out it looks easier and faster doing it the right way. I guess you can teach old dogs new tricks.
Looking up the torque values for the fuses. Hahaha I absolutely love that I hope no one missed it! Great stuff man
new wires and cables is such great peace of mind.... splendid
In the old days I would check for a voltage drop by attempting to crank with the headlamps on. The headlamps would go out if there was a bad battery connection or a dead battery. Much the same as watching the voltmeter go to zero or checking with a test lamp.
Some new cars automatically disable the headlights during a crank just to lower total amp draw.
Very happy you are doing a follow up video on this one. Exciting!!!
218,000 miles. It’s just broke in. It’s good for another 300,000. Might need an alternator or vvt valves later on.
Love the torqueing that goes on here LOL.
Another job well done and another happy customer.
As slick as it gets! Another home run!
Tested, found it, fixed it. Top notch work, and saved the customer mucho dinero.
I didn’t trust you BUT Once again you have not lied to us. I will catch you next time though! 😅
Eric, great customer-friendly job as usual! Wish you were 1500 miles closer!
I never doubted you were lying Eric, my OCD and I thank you 👍🏻
Thank you for saying "limeter". Being an old 'merican engineer mil means thousandths of inch and it drives me crazy when Cutting Edge Engineering Australia says mil when he means mm.
Having worked in a place with old British machine tools, in inches, and plenty of newer metric stuff around, I deliberately tried to avoid "mil" in either context to avoid confusion. Stuck to "thou" and "millimetre".
3:28
"Hey, it's that guy!"
I got your back, Eric!
Yes! Thanks for listening to your viewers. I really wanted to see this done. This is awesome! Honda did a great job making that battery cable modular and replaceable. I wonder if Toyota did the same to my car. I'm going to have to go to the junkyard and take one apart and bake in the sun.
The best part is you have "ALL" of the factory torque spec's memorized! Amazing!
Such fun. My favorite starter replacement was on an Olds with the 3.3 in it. Customer stated the starter was intermittent and making noise. Get it up in the air and discovered that the through bolts had an issue, bottom one was missing, top one was loose! Yep that would cause problems.
Nice repair. Quick and clean. Happy customer.
All the magic happens off camera! Thanks for the Video Mr O.
Thanks for taking the time to explain the problem and showing how to fix it. KEEP UP THE GREAT INFORMATION.
Did I mention how amazing it is being a MEMBER! and getting the vids first not sure what ya'll are waiting on its like Christmas keeps coming early!
I’m gonna be “that guy” right now. I love this channel and his videos but what do you actually earn by being a member? What is the ROI? Nothing is the answer. Christmas may come early for you but it’s the same Christmas for the rest of us that don’t get it early. There’s no benefit by being first. I’m literally watching the same video but just a few days later. Being a member to anyone and being proud doesn’t pay my mortgage or waive any fees. Just a thought.
Sucker...
Jokes on you we have a life and the videos come out faster than we can watch them.
Besides that paying money for free content, content that would not even exist without the free platform aspect is beyond stupid. He needs us more than he needs you.
You are a charity which is fine do you, but dont run your mouth like an idiot.
You waiting for youtube videos to drop is more sad than funny.
@@Nmdixon-cu7vm Thanks for being another loyal fan enjoy the free vids!
Nice video and diagnosis. I got burned as a first year apprentice by a bad connection on a farm tractor and put a starter on. I really wanted to see you torque the fuses. I didn’t realize that was required. 😂😂
14:52 - you'd be surprised, I've seen some things mixed up at the shop this week. On an Odyssey, I saw both cooling fans put in the wrong place (they're different widths and depths), zip-tied into place... the bigger fan was jammed right between the radiator and the alternator. The a/c even worked better after I swapped those back and put actual bolts to hold it in.
You make it look easy nothing exceeds like good aptitude and experience.
Friday morning recovering from Debate party? Watching Eric O making things right on a HonDo! And just read the description disclaimer! About the only thing missing in this disclaimer is the harming of little children or animals like Luna in the filming? But I understand the Lawyers make the world crumble! Anyways , a cup of coffee and a English Muffin and I can watch SMA and the fixing of most brands of American vehicles…….a true American original Hero! Happy Independence Day to all America and the SMA crew!
I literally CHEERED when you removed the parts tray from the top of the engine before cranking it over! Oh man the stories I have!! I bet you do too! 😉
Only heard one click on that dropped bolt. Not a good sign unless it went clear through. Another good video
That is the worst thing when you don't hear it hit the floor
Eric got the rarest of rare cars in the shop. It had a full tank a gas.
I have never tested for voltage drop when a starter clicks. So far i have been 100% right! Until next time though, i may be completely wrong. I am just an at home DIYer
Love the videos.
That car is worth a lot of money...the owner has a full tank of gas...a pretty serious investment nowadays!
Except in Georgia where I just paid $3.05. Floored me. In the Peoples Republic of Washington (where I live) it’s $4.50.
@@SteelheadTed
It's $2.85 in my state (near the state you were in)
It is amazing the stuff that happens to cars up north. I have seen corroded battery terminal connectors but never the wiring that deep. Stuff (marine) in salt water is a different matter.
Thanks Eric for the content. Sure beats the wasteland that is poblic TV.
Unloading the video card today, must have some good jobs in the works to share with us all. The Canadian no-ox comes in clutch once again.
enjoyed this video immensely, have a 99 accord with no problems whatsoever but now I know how to do a starter wiring harness!
I always watch your videos and I think you are one of the best mechanics on you tube! You make your videos understandable the way you explain everything, but as a customer I would have put a new starter on a car that old, and I know starters are notorious for being problematic even when new and Honda's are expensive. Having said that. On an 18 year old car? I wouldn't want to be doing that again for as long as possible, and especially if you were doing it in the driveway
From Canada...A. It put a smile on my face
Good to see you test the starter before buttoning up, I’ve been caught with two faults starter and cable, (you probably checked it off camera) and you can find new cables for her in Australia we would have had to make a new cable if they are available the cost is inhibitive.
I changed that starter on my Accord in the driveway with a generic $20 tool set in about 30 minutes. Was shocked how easy it was after working only on GM and Chrysler products before!
You fixed the battery hold-down, super! Now she can pass "Tech" at the racetrack!!
Would be nice to do some quick resistance tests on the old harness to see how effed up it was. Great work as always.
I've been following for some time, this vid hit a nerve, my wife's mazda speed 3 has similar issues..I will follow your protocol...even though I changed the starter..much appreciate how you keep it simple for us hacks...great job as always, keep it up...E
Ya know Eric, I bought my hotrodding oldtimey neighbor one of your Amazon store Astro Pneumatic LEDs and he loved it! Then he forgot it was still under the fender and went for a ride. 400 or so pieces later, he found it on the road, down the street! He got a replacement and I printed out a label for it, DO NOT RUN OVER ME!
Good job. Wiring corrosion can cause lots of headaches. Makes sense on 20 year old vehicle.
I check the torque on my fuses regularly, since it gets so cold here in Canada they come loose easily.
Good Call changing this especially if you can find a new OEM quality harness at a reasonable price. Sometimes replacing the battery cable/harness is the best option for a long term fix over just cleaning the old cable ends especially in a road salt environment as the blue corrosion can travel inside the wiring.
Great job. You're the best diagnostician on the internet. Bar none.
Have an 05 sierra, fan relay box went. Nothing but green slime. Pulled it all apart. Then cut 1/2" copper pipe in half and made a new bus bar.
I wish I had seen this video, before I replaced the starter on my ‘07 Honda CR-V. Remove the intake and throttle body, instead of fighting the hidden long bolt in the back? Wow! I could have saved a lot of time and used fewer curse words getting that job done. Thank you Eric O. for all of your knowledge and recommendations in your videos.
Yeah like I say it's about a 10-minute job to pull the intake off
I wasn't saying you had to, I just relayed a story about a dirty ground that was obvious but for the computer it would have worked and it was the very first one in a car EVER, it drew 100 amps over the stock system and didn't like heat soak 3 strikes. We got it going.
Eric, i dont mean to sound like those guys that know it all.
😂 but the battey's main responsibility is to start the car. Everything else runs off the alternator. In older cars, the main Big Hot wire went from the battery to the starter. IDK if newer cars are like that. So, I always checked the condition of the battery terminals every time i opened the hood on a fill-up and checked my oil. I learned the hard way.
I have seen where someone had a bad starter which cranked slow, so they put a larger battery in and then smoked the cables only to repeat the process before asking for help. of course, everything is as they received it. 😏 I'm sure Eric is way ahead of the game with making sure everything is factory correct ...... hummmm didn't part one say something about the storage guy putting a new battery in it?
Had the input bearing on a 98 Honda Civic transmission start squeaking at 200k, most expedient solution was to swap out the transmission for a low mile used one ($500) after it was installed and the grounds were all tight it would not start, even though the surfaces looked good and clean disturbing them made the ground fail. That all to say spot on advice not to go messing with connections you have not proven bad.
Thanks for the follow up !
Hey, it's this guy, again. As usual and A+ on diagnostics and repair, you're awesome.
I don’t know why anyone would doubt you Eric
Daughter has a 2018 Honda accord. I thought it had a bad battery but when I went to take off the positive the clamp would just free spin on there. Clamp was as tight as you could get it still loose. Had to order a new 1. Problem solved. But those clamps should be redesigned. Crap 💩
Thanks for your videos
Eric my father was a life long wrench turner. I would always get after him for not using a torque wrench. One day he got fed up with me and handed me the wrench and said check them. To my surprise he was within a pound or two of being right. Never said another word. I bet you have the same feel he did.
So they were always just under spec?
You can tell by the way Eric is holding the wrench or ratchet when tightening a fastener as to how much torque he is applying. He knows what he is doing. Besides that “ time is money”
Very nice & easy video, great video as usual. You have to be an automotive teacher when you retire minus the PRNYC location
Kudos for an expertly executed repair!
We just like watching you work Eric O
I feel so much better seeing the engine turnover and start. Will sleep tonight :)
A test is worth a thousand guesses