Thanks for the help

Thanks for the super helpful video! Helped this 29y/o step mom do the swap for the first time ever. & now the kids have an Air conditioned vehicle to be picked up in during the AZ summer. Shared knowledge is community prosperity! ❤

@its_a_metal_thing

26 күн бұрын

@@elizabethstolmeier6070 Good for you tackling this, that’s awesome. I’m glad it worked out for you.Thank you for the kind words.

Perfect timing, my alternator just went out and this is a god send! Thanks bro!

Pretty good, I think I can figure it out from here. It would have been better if you could have positioned the camera to watch while you were removing it, but seeing the reinstall will assist in that part. Thanks.

@its_a_metal_thing

26 күн бұрын

@@matarfo I try to make them short and sweet. I don’t like to watch Timelapse so I don’t put it in. Hopefully it worked out for you.

Nice work. Back in the mid eighties, a long time ago, I worked at an alternator and starter shop. I just have to say, today’s vehicles are a lot tougher to wrench on. Not necessarily a bad thing, today’s cable/wire management and belt tensioning systems humiliate the older systems. It’s almost laughable now how we used to tighten belts with the biggest pry bar/screwdriver you could jamb down in between the alternator and whatever was closest and torque the belt tight while another guy tightened the pinch bolt (praying it didn’t strip). Just saying.

I cant get underneath my car at all, camt jack it up where it is, is it possible to get it out from above?

@its_a_metal_thing

5 күн бұрын

Maybe. That bottom bolt that the alternator pivots on is kind of tricky and I don’t know if it would hit that plastic guard before it came completely out plus, you need to be able to put the belts and stuff back on. I’m pretty sure you could but not 100%.

@marylewallen1985

5 күн бұрын

I managed to get the plastic shield off 😅 so I'm working on finding the bottom bolt and unhooking that wire now fingers crossed 😅