Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:09:17 -0700
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Alternator Brushes Wore Out Pretty Darn Quick
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Glad I didn't have to go through any of these contortions to pull the
alternator. Up until now, there has been zero indication that the PO
ever modified anything, but here the bolt here removes rearward where
there is plenty of room to extract it. I don't see any reason why they
aren't all oriented that way.
Hardware question: Neither the nut or the bolt head have a washer
between them and the bracket. Seems to me that since a loosened
alternator bracket can cause quite a hub-bub that there should be a
lockwasher of some sort, split ring or star-type, somewhere?
Or maybe it's unnecessary if the bolt is torqued to spec.
--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
Bend, Ore.
1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in
San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.
Sent from my kitchen.
On 08/24/2011 06:45 AM, Jim Felder wrote:
> Another way is to pull the airbox and get at the bolt head from behind with
> a long extension and wrench. Feel the long extension and 13mm socket over
> the top of the engine from behind. You'll be able to either feel the nut
> with your hands or with the socket as you sweep back and forth against the
> bracket with the extension. Anyway, when the socket is on the bolt, snap in
> the ratchet, place a box wrench over the nut, and have it it. All you have
> to do to get it back together is manage to get the nut and washer over the
> bracket, then proceed as before with the ratchet in the other direction.
>
> A long taped drift always helps get the holes aligned in the alternator and
> bracket.
>
> This is one of the clumsier operation on a waterboxer, bordering on the
> insanity that is usually associated with more modern motors.
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Jim Arnott<jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rocket J Squirrel
>> I was concerned that if I removed
>> the nut so I could really get at the back of the alternator, my fingers
>> would not be able to get the nut back on in that cramped area. It's
>> pretty tight in there. Needlenose pliers?
>>
>> 13 mm box end wrench with a fold of electrical tape on one flat of the nut
>> to hold it into the wrench. Magnet on a stick to retrieve it when it falls
>> out. The second time you'll get it.
>>
>> Jim
>>
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