Thread: A general warning for the unwary

Originally Posted by St3pho_62

G'day All

I swappped out my cactus OEM 60 amp alternator with a new one yesterday and apart from the usual crap about swapping pullies and getting out siezed bolts (Cad plating into Ali can be such a P i t A) It was all relatively uneventfull,

Until

I went to put the belt back on. I had a mate assisting and we had re routed the belt so that while I held the tensioner he put the belt back around the alternator pully. All good but he had to have a couple of goes at it as he's like me and suffers from ducks disease. In the process of letting the ring spanner on the end of the tensioner go I got my finger stuck between the fan cowling and the ringy as the spanner slipped out of my now very sweaty hand. Mightn't sound like much but I can assure you it brought tears to my eyes.

Moral of the story, keep your bits out of the way of spring loaded thingies. They will do u some severe damage.

That would've hurt!!!

I often say to people who talk about ducks a lot and crack lots of SHORT jokes, that the vertically challenged among us have more highly developed brains, due to the oxygen levels being far more concentrated when closer to sea level...

JC

Originally Posted by justinc

That would've hurt!!!

I often say to people who talk about ducks a lot and crack lots of SHORT jokes, that the vertically challenged among us have more highly developed brains, due to the oxygen levels being far more concentrated when closer to sea level...

JC

Don't forget JC, us TAALLLLER folk, know what its like to be that height, as we've been there before

did you swap the pully over or are you running the different (longer i think) belt

i just upgraded to a 100amper as well, just have to remember which belt is fitted now

and.........i didn't get my fingers caught

Originally Posted by rovercare

Don't forget JC, us TAALLLLER folk, know what its like to be that height, as we've been there before

Originally Posted by weeds

did you swap the pully over or are you running the different (longer i think) belt

i just upgraded to a 100amper as well, just have to remember which belt is fitted now

and.........i didn't get my fingers caught

I swapped my alt over for a 100 amp job 2 years ago , the belt is the standard belt the pulley on the alt is all you change from your old one on to the new one