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So I drive Dump Truck for a Paving co. I spend from sometime in Nov to April at home working on my WIllys Jeep. I spend almost every day working on it. Its a extremely detailed project. I love working on it.
Yesterday I had to jump the wifes car three times to get it home with a F'ed up Alternator. Today I pushed my Jeep deeper into the shop so I could get the car into the shop far enough to get it up on ramps (the stupid alternator has to come out the bottom.
It maybe only took a 1/2 hour of actual work to get the alternator out of course when you add in getting off the floor 10 times and searching for Metric tools I managed to spread removing it out to all day. Had to have it out to even figure out which of the 2 dozen choices NAPA has to buy. And tomorrow I will have to put a new one back in. I understand how things have to be compact but I HATE working on crap like this Where you have to do things like unhook a motor mount and pry the engine forward so the alternator can even fit out. AND now to put the new one in I have to hook up the electrical connections and some stupid shroud on it while it floats around in the space it goes.
But then it beats the maybe $700 A dealer would charge for this.
Yesterday I had to jump the wifes car three times to get it home with a F'ed up Alternator. Today I pushed my Jeep deeper into the shop so I could get the car into the shop far enough to get it up on ramps (the stupid alternator has to come out the bottom.
It maybe only took a 1/2 hour of actual work to get the alternator out of course when you add in getting off the floor 10 times and searching for Metric tools I managed to spread removing it out to all day. Had to have it out to even figure out which of the 2 dozen choices NAPA has to buy. And tomorrow I will have to put a new one back in. I understand how things have to be compact but I HATE working on crap like this Where you have to do things like unhook a motor mount and pry the engine forward so the alternator can even fit out. AND now to put the new one in I have to hook up the electrical connections and some stupid shroud on it while it floats around in the space it goes.
But then it beats the maybe $700 A dealer would charge for this.