Re: Aternator woes - 5kTQ

[Michael Spiers <mikes@specnet.com>]

> The wife's 87 TQW's alternator has one of the most robust-looking alternator
> adjustment linkages I have ever seen. The belt tension is adjusted by
rotating
> a nut with teeth on it that engage a toothed piece, making minute adjustments
> possible and loosening all-but impossible. I wonder if you might be missing
> some of these pieces and linkages. I just cannot see how one of these
> alternators could "loosen up" if all the pieces are there.....

"Bob," my TQ has the exact linkage as your wife's.  Problem is, the star nut
has all it's teeth stripped (a lesser mechanic before me apparently got a tad
impatient) so it no longer engages that other toothed piece.  I solved the
problem by ramming a bolt through another hole & propping it against the
alternator body.  The sucker hasn't moved in 2,000 miles.  :-)

-- 
-Mike
mikes@specnet.com
mks107@psuvm.psu.edu
87 5000CS TQ
84 5000S (2,000 miles away and a mile high)
90 80 (sibling's mode of transportation I get lynched into working on)