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Alternator Closure (I hope) - Ianumunro - 10-07-2015

Hey everybody. Long story here goes:
So shortly after I bought my car, I had a reasonably sized leak in my power steering fluid. The belt survived, but it had whipped a large amount of gunk onto my alternator. Early last spring, I took the car to my mechanic because of the noise coming from my engine bay.(Swedish Import Services, great guy, if you have a Volvo or Pre-gm Saab definitely check him out.) Anyway he said he wasn't quite sure and he recommended me to AutoScandia. They charged me 84 dollars and gave me an estimate of $850 to replace my alternator. My friend Weston agreed to help me drop in the new alternator during the summer and out schedules never matched up. Enter Jake Thiewes. He helped me a lot and huge props to him and all others who helped me get in the new alt in. Using online logs (<a class="postlink" href="http://www.saabcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48122">http://www.saabcentral.com/forums/showt ... hp?t=48122</a>) we spent all Sunday taking out the old alternator. The bracket had four bolts, one of which was a complete bastard, jammed between the ear lip of the bracket and the round top of the alternator. I had already purchased a "perfect fit" alternator from Olympus. But things were unhappy when we held the old, gunk covered alt and it fit in the palm of our hands. The next day I borrowed Jake's tank and went to Olympus for the new part. Props to Olympus for giving me a full refund even though the extended time I had the alternator. Anyway second day we drop the new alternator in pretty quick. However, the old one has a neck to reach the extra few inches to get to the belt. Impact gun the neck off the old one and onto the new one. Easy enough. We throw everything back in and on. Jake kicks it up to about 5,000 RPM and a loud clunk followed by sawing sounds. The neck had fallen off because there was not enough room for both the washer and bolt to hold on the neck. Within about two hours we had everything back out, neck on without the washer, and everything back in and ready to go. I'm out by about 7:45 on Monday night after first arriving at about 11 in the morning on Sunday. I am ridiculously confident in my skill at replacing GM900 and OG9-3 alternators now. Look no further if you need help with that.
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Re: Alternator Closure (I hope) - Senor_Taylor - 10-07-2015

Wow. Great character development. A very moving piece. I feel like i was there.

11/10

Re: Alternator Closure (I hope) - JPolen01 - 10-07-2015

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Re: Alternator Closure (I hope) - Senor_Taylor - 10-07-2015

Way to help retain those current members on the forum, Pole Cat.

Re: Alternator Closure (I hope) - JPolen01 - 10-07-2015

Senor_Taylor Wrote:Way to help retain those current members on the forum, Pole Cat.

Sorry. I should have said welcome first.

Welcome

Re: Alternator Closure (I hope) - Senor_Taylor - 10-07-2015

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Re: Alternator Closure (I hope) - *insertusernamehere* - 10-07-2015

HA, you should ask me how i feel after completing anything on a car. Manliest man of the men, I am I tell you. My manly is so strong after fixing anything on a car that other manly men that just fixed their car in germany can feel my manly. It's manly, man. Now make a project thread, make a list and start knocking out everything wrong with the Saab and share us your manly.

Re: Alternator Closure (I hope) - Jake - 10-08-2015

Oh, that Saab.

That was certainly a learning experience for ya, Ian. And for me too.

Had Olympus given him the right part the first time, we would have been done same-day. The extended story is that we discovered there is a different alternator for the hatchback vs. convertible 900's. The 'vert has a larger alternator that puts out more amperage. Well, Olympus seems to have the part numbers backwards in their system as to which one fits which body style, as they gave Ian the "perfect fit" alternator, stamped with the convertible part number. And of course, we only realized this after we put it in and ran into issues.

So, asking for "the convertible alternator instead" for his hatchback worked perfectly Big Grin

Oh, cars.

I still kinda want a Viggen.

Re: Alternator Closure (I hope) - SlimKlim - 10-08-2015

Nicely done. :thumbup:

I enjoyed sitting in your car on that day and feeling like I was 16 again, as well as loitering around the garage and not being particularly helpful to anyone doing actual work.

So when are you doing the five speed swap?

Re: Alternator Closure (I hope) - Ianumunro - 10-23-2015

Not anytime soon... I'm keeping my eyes peeled for an old, domestic, compact FWD with a manual transmission, and in running condition for under $500. Then after, I aim to hopefully nab a cheap manual 9000 or 900 I don't really mind either way. Preferably a 9000 turbo.

Re: Alternator Closure (I hope) - rherold9 - 10-23-2015

Find an old Honda

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Re: Alternator Closure (I hope) - Kaan - 10-24-2015

rherold9 Wrote:Find an old Honda

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