03 4.4 with 93K miles. Just had the vacuum hoses on crankcase replaced. It was the hottest day of the summer around 95 degrees farenheit. After replacing these two hoses, it made this noise for about 3 start ups then stopped. A week has gone by and today it was like 90 and it did it a couple of times. She also started making these moaning noises when making turns or going over things like speed bump then stopped. Now we have named her Mona.

On all domestics I have owned, when a starter starts going out it hangs up before it engages. In my case the starter engages right away buts makes this grrring sound for about half a second after it has started, similar to the noise it would make if you tried engaging the starter with the engine running.

Is changing a starter on an X5 an easy thing on like on most domestics?

Thanks in advance.