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Removing alternator housing

David99GTP

David99GTP

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Can anyone help me? I have plans to chrome my alternator housing. I have hit a deadend and have stopped so I dont ruin anything. I cant seem to get the rest of the parts off in order to separate the two halves. I posted pictures of my progress. I am currently stuck at trying to remove the circuit components. There are 3 wires soldered into the circuitry and they connect to the wire undle/wraping inside the hiousing. Do I need to break the solder connection and resolder after I re-assemble?
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On the same note after that is answered what is my next hurdle?
 


I moved this over to the L67 engine section. The HowTo section is for write ups already done. I left a redirect for you so you can find it. It will probably get more assistance here as well.
 
No problem. I will be watching this though cause I am very curious myself and would like to take mine apart and either polish it or paint it.
 
Wow, bring back my question from a couple weeks ago. I still havn't figured this out, but I did give up on it for now because of the crazy cold weather.
If you get this done try and do a detailed writeup with lots of pics.
 




SyntheticShield said:
Christ no. Everytime I considered it I just had visions of PCB igniting in my face or letting the smoke out of components.
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heh, yeah i dont know that i'd want my fingers that intimate with flame either.... but the butate powered soldering pen isnt bad, just takes a bit longer to heat up.
 


i thought about taking mine apart too and paint it, but if it's gonna take alot of work i think i'll leave it alone for now.
 
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one woud think that if just polishing the case were the goal, a decent job could be done on it without disassembly.
 
Toasty said:
one woud think that if just polishing the case were the goal, a decent job could be done on it without disassembly.
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works great
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take the pulley off, and the case screws and you can remove just the front of the case
to remove the rotor you need to retract the brushes and hold them back with a paperclip in the regulator housing before pulling it out of the back housing
to remove the stator windings you have to desolder the stator to voltage regulator assembly.



the 140amp alternators are much easier to disassemble
 
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