Re: Tips on removing type 44 alternator?

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

Hi Gary;

    That rear bolt is definitely a PITA. I access it using a 3/8" drive
ratchet and a 17 mm regular socket. I work the ratchet up from the bottom
beside/behind  the alternator. If I recall correctly, I put the socket on
the bolt and slide the ratchet up through the packed mess of equipment down
there. Sorry I can't be more specific; I'd have to be laying under the car
looking at it to give you a good description. It usually takes me 5 minutes
to figure out how to access it; the knowledge that I've done it before
encourages persistence! I loosen this bolt every time I tension the
alternator belt. As I recall, it is easier to get to if you remove the
plastic cover on the back of the alternator - when I'm tensioning the belt I
just leave the cover on and "bless" the Audi engineers under my breath.
    BTW, my '91 200q has the 10V engine, so the alternator layout is the
same as yours.

HTH

Fred Munro
'91 200q  276k km

----- Original Message -----
From: Gary G. Erickson <erickson@teleport.com>
To: <quattro@audifans.com>
Cc: <scottmo@teleport.com>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 12:10 AM
Subject: Tips on removing type 44 alternator?


> Greetings all,
>
> Here I am in the northern part of Wyoming, visiting my girlfriends
> parents, when the bearings in my 1989 200q's alternator start to make ugly
> noises and it starts eating belts as we're climbing through assorted
> mountain ranges.
>
> As luck would have it, I do have a spare alternator in the car, but I
> can't get that damned rear bolt out.  (At the top where it attaches to the
> mounting bracket at the side of the block.)
>
> I have tried going in from the front with a crowsfoot, up from the bottom
> with a stubby 17mm, but I just can't get the thing to budge.  I can't fit
> a socket or anything bigger in there because the turbo oil line is fouling
> me.
>
> Anybody have any hints or tricks that they can pass on?  I would have a
> full alternator-ectomy done on the side of the road in less than 45
> minutes if I had been able to get that last bolt out.  My luck continued
> to hold as I did have a spare belt for a 4kq/GT (yes, I know it's too
> long!) in the trunk which got me that last 130 miles.
>
> Help me out!  This is _not_ the impression that I wanted to make on
> Andrea's mother!  ;-)
>
> low on voltage in Wyoming,
>
> -Gary
>
> '85 turbo GT coupe
> '89 80q
> '89 200q  (running around w/o it's front bumper)
>
>