Re: results: 84 4kq alternator removal

["Rich, Jack" <JRich@Kronos.com>]

"Everyone" doesn't include me.  The mounting shroud that my alternator is
bolted to clearly requires the one I've got.  But all the computers and
books want a different one.  The difference is that on mine, the pivot bolt
hole is 2 inches wide on the alternator, is unthreaded, and fits exactly
into the mount.  That hole is slightly smaller than the adjustment bolt hole
(thus the tight fit.)  The one everyone tried to give me had a very narrow
(1/2 inch?) pivot bolt hole that was threaded.  In retrospect, I probably
could have made the wrong one fit just fine given the right bolt whose
threads match the pivot bolt threads.  I'm not sure I would have trusted it
to stay in as well, though.

Hey, once I had the right (wrong?) alternator, I got that bugger in just
fine, too.  The parts weld themselves together after a few years, especially
when you add lots of salt water, like you get in the winter here.

Jack Rich

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent:	Wednesday, February 03, 1999 19:46
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> Subject:	quattro-digest V4 #3449
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> 
> >> Everyone agrees my car takes a different alternator than the one that
> came out
> >> of it.
> 
> > Maybe that's why the pivot bolt was such a tight fit in the alternator.
> 
> You gotta admire the guy that got the bugger in, though.
> 
> Anyone searched the archives for any old rants about how tight a fit
> it is?
> 
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