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Unhook your battery. Reach behind the fan shroud on the right side of the car with a 17mm wrench and feel around until you find the top nut. Try to take it off. If it doesn't come off, keep this in mind. Jack up the car, put jackstands under it, put yourself under it and unhook the battery cable and bendix wire. If you got the top nut completely off, remove the bottom nut, then slip the starter out of the car. If it DIDN'T come off, clamp a set of vise-grips to the bolt at the top of the starter, then crawl out, remove the top nut, crawl back under, remove the bottom nut and take the starter out. If you had to do the vise-grips thing, take the top bolt to a machinist to have a 1/4" bolt welded sideways to the head of the starter bolt. In operation, the bolt welded sideways will hit the transmission case the first time you try tightening the nut to it, it will turn no further, and you can tighten it right up.

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