Change Alternator Again

[Redog]

The one I bought from AutoZone was a dud, it was only intermittingly charging. I had it checked at the mech.

He said I did a good job, but I did a better one today :glare:

Got home from work at 8:30 AM, start to pull the alternator out, remove the tower brace, move the cruise control unit, and disconnect the battery. Start the tensionor with the ratchet, the ratcher slips, the tip breaks off in the tensionor and the rest of it slips onto the bonnet under the motor.

Get the rest of the knob out of the tensionor and strip the socket hole in the process. Buy a new breaker bar, try anmother socket, nothing works. Tried to use tape around the socket head, didn't work, but I did manage to snap the belt in the process ( it was old) and I'm not pulling the motor mounts to do a new belt.

By the time I go to Autozone once to buy a new tool, back to exchange the alternator, and installed it, it's going on noon (being up for 24 hours mark) call AAA to flatbed the car to my mech, and with all the flooding in the area, they call back and say it's going to be 3 hours beofre a truck can show up. I cancaled that order right away.

Car will be towed on Sunday night. 100 miles free towing so I'm good there.

I have 2 cars, poop happens :glare:

[Oldsman]

good job....................welcome to working on an Olds.

[cherrington17]

well... uh.. i guess good news is you get to replace that old belt?

not sure how to salvage good news outta this story....

[leroBob]

all this over a alternator???
Should have been like a 30 min thing

[doubleN0alero]

well you have to understand, ken was walking around for 3 hours looking for left handed tools...then once he found some, things started to go south.

sorry to hear about your mishap...that does suck and seems like its just everything piling on at once..I know the feeling

[Redog]

Well I got good news out of this!

I was talking to one of the line mechs at work this morning, and he's going to come over and we are going to wrok on the tensionor, and install a new belt.

The tensionor hole is just rounded out, we might be able to make it work.

[leroBob]

Good luck, i say have at least a case ready that will make things go smoother!

[SweetNLow]

brad dont forget that bucket of steam he was lookin for along with the left handed tools..........

[doubleN0alero]

oh yeah damn, thats right...oh and he also was trying to find the elbow grease to put on the bolts to make them turn...

[NjRef511]

Originally posted by Oldsman@Jun 30 2006, 10:12 PM
good job....................welcome to working on an Olds.
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I think its the other way around....i think my olds works on me more. Always trying my patence.

[Redog]

Originally posted by leroBob@Jul 1 2006, 04:10 PM
Good luck, i say have at least a case ready that will make things go smoother!
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Na I offered him a case and he said, "Na, just a 6 pack, I'm not an aliki"

[-Alero-]

you get that alternator pulley off? if yo uknow the trick tell me

[Redog]

^^ No the shop in work has an impact gun, I'm going to use that probably next week.

On first shift this week and too many bosses are around :hide:

The good news is I got it done, well we actually.

My co-worked came over and we had a female dog of a time with getting the tensionor loose. We used a monkey wrench is pull the tensionor loose jsut enough to slip the belt on all the pullies.

We pulled out the tensiontor to check it. Looked fine. If I have to do another pulley or belt, Might need a new one.

Redog has been sitting since Tuesday, It's nice to have the Redog back!

Now the Delta is going to need a heater core. Shouldn't be too bad, it's under the hood, and cost $25 at Pep Boys