10-07-2015, 07:13 PM
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 (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.saabcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48122">http://www.saabcentral.com/forums/showt ... hp?t=48122</a><!-- m -->) 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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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 (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.saabcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48122">http://www.saabcentral.com/forums/showt ... hp?t=48122</a><!-- m -->) 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.
1989 SAAB 9000 2.0 Turbo
1996 Mercury Mystique GS Derby Car
1996 SAAB 900NG 2.0 Turbo
“Snaabery”: often defined by owning an original, pre-GM Saab; rituals and moral responsibilities: flashing your lights at other Saab drivers and helping them out of trouble; oppositional loyalties: despising BMWs; and myth-making: notably “How Saab saved my life” stories about crashes in which the cars lay down their lives for their owners. - Sam Knight
1996 Mercury Mystique GS Derby Car
1996 SAAB 900NG 2.0 Turbo
“Snaabery”: often defined by owning an original, pre-GM Saab; rituals and moral responsibilities: flashing your lights at other Saab drivers and helping them out of trouble; oppositional loyalties: despising BMWs; and myth-making: notably “How Saab saved my life” stories about crashes in which the cars lay down their lives for their owners. - Sam Knight
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