[tcb] Vanagon Alternator please help

  • From: photofreakk@xxxxxxxxx
  • To: "Tcb" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:46:52 +0000

Hey all-again this is a vanagon question and I don't know if all buses have 
same Alternator but here I go....... Okay, I got the alternator out (85 Westy 
vanagon) and trying to reuse/save the pulley, fan and I got the mounting 
hardware-i cannot get the mounting nut to budge off to take off and put onto 
new alternator!  If I twist to loosen, then the fan and whole mech. Spins, if I 
hold the fan and nut and go in opposite, I started bending one of the fan 
blades---Ah!!!!! I used some liquid wrench and it didn't help, I know I have 
women strength wrists, but if I couldn't get it off and am bending the fan 
blade then what am I doing wrong? Is there a locking key? I see one on the new 
one, but the fan spacers are on old, so how do I get a locking nut off?

Thanks so much and no haven't searched Samba yet(isn't user friendly in my 
opinion) and I leave in 3days to head to MN in the Vanagon were our hopes! ;-( 
tear.  
I guess better it goes out before our trip than on the road.
Sarah
85 Westy "Lennon" 
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