I'd disconnect the battery ground wire, loosen the right rear lug
nuts, jack up that rear corner, put it on jack stands, pull the r
rear wheel then take the starter off, fix what ever it is I needed to
fix and just in general do a little cleaning.
Then I'd put it back together.

Rob
becida@comcast.net

4/27/2009 12:42 PM, Marc Perdue wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I wanted to post the solution to this problem, just in case anybody
>else ran into it.  It was way simpler than anything anybody suggested,
>thank goodness, but still enough to strand me.
>
>There's a red wire with female spade lug connector that connects to
>the starter.  It was disconnected.  Duh...  It was so loose, that
>every time I started the van, it came loose again.  I decided to just
>get the van running and drive it home to where I could work on it in
>peace.
>
>The connector is in a really hard place to get to, fore of the engine
>compartment, over the right side of the transmission.  If anybody has
>any brilliant ideas for getting easy access to this connector, I'm all
>ears.  One way or the other, though, I need to tighten up that
>connector and all should be right with the world then.
>
>Thanks again for all the great suggestions!
>Marc
>