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Well, long story short, I need to pull the starter off of the plow truck we use. It is around a 1972 Ford F250 with a 360 engine. Does anyone happen to know what tools are needed to pull the starter off? I normally wouldn't ask but the truck is outside at the back of my fathers property with a ton of snow around it. I was hoping to not have to crawl through the snow and under the truck, then walk to get the right wrench a bunch of times. Thanks.

Been a long time! I "think" a long extension, knuckle and the bolts are probably 1/2". Should be 2 bolts and the lead wire to remove.

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I would arm myself with 3/8ths, 7/16ths, 1/2, 9/16ths, 5/8ths inch boxed end wrenches, and a ratchet with 12 inch extension, and those same size sockets. There are only 3 bolts holding the starter to the bell housing, and one large gauge wire, with nut holding it to the starter from the solenoid, fairly easy to get out and back in, just can't remember exactly what sizes the stuff is.

I just looked on rockauto.com at the motors, and see of the three bolt holes, two are larger than the one in the middle. Some, not all of these starters also use a bracket on the end of the starter between one of the main starter mold together bolt, to the block, that should be the 3/8thw or 7/16ths stuff. Starter does bolt to the bell housing, NT the engine, and bolts from front of the engine, to rear (socket and extension would most likely be the way to go, boxed end wrench for the starter wire nut).

You might take a look at the starters there, or, on oriellyautoparts.com, will give you an idea of what you will see when you get under it.

Thanks for the replies, pretty much the same as I got on a different forum. Hopefully I will only have to crawl under once to get it out.

It isn't that hard to remove it, abut 3 minutes flat, replace it, add another 4 or 5 minutes. Hardest part is holding the new starter with one hand, while feeding in a bolt to hold it in place.

You're right the starter shouldn't be the hard part, it is the rest of the conditions that is going to suck At least it is supposed to warm up for the weekend.

One other very important issue to keep in mind.....don't let that greasy, dirty, oily, slippery starter fall out of your hand, and whack you in the head, extremely painful.

Ford FE/FT engine uses 3/8ths bolt for the starter so it should have a 9/16ths head on it. I would take a 1/2 and 9/16ths open end wrench for the cable and same size sockets for the starter bolts with a 6 to 8 inch extension. As long as you have stock manifolds you should have plenty of room to work. And hope no one did anything weird with it before.