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[Bogo]

My alternator on a '89 22RE is giving me grief. It took it out and it came out hard. After removing the bolt from the bottom pivot bracket it to lots of wiggling to get the alternator to slide out. I rebuilt it. Now I can't get it to go back in. It is refusing to go back into the the bottom pivot bracket. Looks like I'm going to have to grind a small ramp into one of the faces to get it to hopefully slide into place. If that doesn't work, I'll have to grind a bit off one of the faces. Hopefully that doesn't misalign the belt to much.

Oh yeah, looks like the joker who put on the bypass hose did it when the power steering pump wasn't mounted. The ears on the spring band camp bracketed part of the power steering pump mount structure.

 

[toy4xfun]

i would not grind it, let me look at one of my mounts.

 

[toy4xfun]

yep there is a bushing in the front of the mount that needs to be pushed forward or toward the front of the truck,then when you tighten the bolt it will tighten up on the alt. .

 

[Bogo]

After knocking off some rust I found that bushing and I could see it was of a different steel than the mount. It won't budge. It appears to have around a .25mm gap between it's face and the mount's face and it is filled with rust. I have it soaking in rust remover.. It does tell me that the back edge of the mount is the critical one for alignment and it must not be altered.

 

[toy4xfun]

yep do not grind anything spray it if you feel to the front of the bushing you will feel where it sticks out from the front of the mount, so when you tighten the bolt it tightens the bushing, this is because the little bolt on the top of the alt. will not hold against the torque of the belt by it's self.

 

[Bogo]

My solution.

I took a moderate length bolt with nut that just fit the hole in the flanged sleeve. I also used a 16mm 3/8" socket, and some washers. The 16 mm socket was placed so it bridged over the exposed end of the flanged sleeve to the front of the truck. It pressed against the bracket, not the sleeve end. The bolt was fed through the socket's 3/8" square drive hole, and though the hole in the in the flanged sleeve. I then put a stack of washers on the bolt to protect the face of the flanged sleeve, and screwed the nut on. After tightening down very hard it went pop and the flanged sleeve moved enough towards the front of the vehicle that I could install the alternator.