The alternator in my 75 camper (1800) kind of died – or stopped charging the battery. I spoke to my Auto-Electricitian who suggested that it would be cheaper to fix if I took out the alternator and bring it in rather than have him remove it. So this is what I did and how I did it.
Step 1
First I put Shirl up on stands so I could get under her a little eaiser,
Then I removed the stone guard from the cooling fan, and removed the fanbelt.
Next I removed the plate or tim-ware that was attached to the heat-exchanger on the right hand side so I could access the bolt that holds the alternator on and the clamp that held the breather pipe (I think’s what you call it) attached to the back of the alternator. I also removed the tin-ware from in front of the alternator.
Step 2
After removing all the tin-ware I took out the bolt that held the alternator in place – an attachment to my 13mm socket made the job real easy. Don’t know what you call it so here is a picture:
With the bolt out I was able to wriggle the alternator out from it’s snug little hole.
Once the alternator was free and before removing it completely I disconnected all the wires and pushed them through the rubber grommet.
Then with a little more twisting and pulling I had the alternator out
All up, the alternator took a little over an hour to remove.
Now it’s off to the Auto-Eletrician for repair – I’ll post the cost of the repair as soon as I know.
Some notes
A few of the screws holding in the tin-ware were quite tight so I used a pair of vice-grips on the screw driver for leverage.
Also, when I removed the tightening bolt with the allum key, there was a square nut that it went into – I found this when I was packing up and wasn’t quite sure where it came from – once I worked it out I put the tighening bolt and the bolt that attached the alternator to the engine back onto the alternator so I wouldn’t lose them.
Hope that helps.
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1 DonYan // Aug 11, 2008 at 4:39 am
how come you have an 1800 cc? My “Perica” (spanish for “parrot”: two tone green paint job) has that engine, and it is a 1,700 cc (1.7 lt as they say now) That engine was used on the Porsche 914, although it is a VW engine, the called that car the VW-Porsche in those days…but had two carbs with two throats each. It is a little detuned from the VW factory for not over heating under the VW bus load, on long road streches.
Then, there were the after-market bigger bores…up to 2.1 lt. but not as resistant,.
My “Perica, has a top speed of…100 ml/h! Her speedo dial top (at the botom) mark, is 90…so the needle points to the blue HighBeam idiot light, past the 90 mark…at México city altitude (7,500 ft, almost 2,500 meters) on the highway from the Mex. city to Pachuca city (going north) maybe with some tailwind…I have the long diferential, that automatic came from the type 4. Going up from Cuernavaca to México city, on the highway, maximum 60 ml/h (with tailwind too! acceleration is not like a Porsche)…with my labrador Iván & all tools. (1/3 of full load)
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