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Old 03-30-2006 | 11:40 AM
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can someone please help me?

I tried to pull off my alternator last night to instal a 180 T-stat.

Removed the 2 bolts that bolt it to the bracket, but now there seems to be something holding the bottm on. it will pivot as if i didnt remove the lower bolt. possibly a spacer, but it doesnt seem to budge.

any suggestions?

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Old 03-30-2006 | 05:18 PM
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Old 03-30-2006 | 06:28 PM
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i wonder if that guy realizes hes running dexacool in a mopar motor. http://www.pavementsucks.com/tech/tstat.php
 
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Old 03-30-2006 | 06:33 PM
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I sure hope for his sake that he didn't mix green and orange......that is bad bad news. We had a car come in the shop one day that had that treatment done on it. The owner wasnt happy when he had to buy a new radiator and pay to have the whole motor douched out. We cut the old radiator in half too look in there, that stuff mixes and it almost looks like jello. Wierd stuff but it is "better for the environment".
 
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Old 03-30-2006 | 07:32 PM
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That stuff is gross! I only use Etholyne Glycol in mine. I buy the straight up stuff and mix it myself, NEVER the 50/50 mixed stuff!
 
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Old 03-30-2006 | 09:46 PM
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thanks chopper1

that certainly hepled out a bit. dont know what i was thinking, about the alternator. but it still helped to be able to move it somewhat out of the way.

 
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Old 03-30-2006 | 10:11 PM
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yea if you hit that link above and look in the pics he's got a bucket underneat full of red coolant.... dexacool (a "GM" brand of coolant) will fubar a ram's coolant system

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I sure hope for his sake that he didn't mix green and orange......that is bad bad news. We had a car come in the shop one day that had that treatment done on it. The owner wasnt happy when he had to buy a new radiator and pay to have the whole motor douched out. We cut the old radiator in half too look in there, that stuff mixes and it almost looks like jello. Wierd stuff but it is "better for the environment".

LMAO... hahahhaha... makes sense though
 
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Old 03-30-2006 | 10:16 PM
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you can use a big screw driver to pry it out of the lower bracket... there is a sleeve in the lower mounting hole near the rear that will need to be pressed inward towards the middle of the alt. otherwise it may be difficult to re-install.
 
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Old 03-30-2006 | 10:23 PM
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that sleeve makes it a PITA to get the alt back in... you gotta wiggle and jimmy it so the holes line up to slide the long bolt through...
 
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Old 03-30-2006 | 10:38 PM
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actually if you take 2 channel lock plyers, you can slide the sleeve in a little so it slides right in. the sleeve will then re-seat itself once you tighten it all back up.
 



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