Starter

Asked by RICK Mar 13, 2019 at 09:45 PM about the 2002 Ford Escape XLT FWD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Please see picture, this happened today. Anyone
knows why this would of happened? It started
smoking then a pop. You see the hole on the
starter.

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F_O_R answered 5 years ago

Buy a new starter. Probably an internal short.

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RICK answered 5 years ago

That’s a swap. The one it had was bad so I put one that was working on my other Ford Escape same year.

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