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Today I did something to my car (volume 2)
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That alternator is looking pretty grimey
Torx T60 to back off the belt tensioner, and an allen key used as a pin to hold
Belt off 
Old belt, bit of wear, not too bad I think.
Next bit is very important if you don't want to be replacing a rad too!
Get a box from lidl
and put it in front of the rad so you don't damage the fins when you tugging on/cursing at the alternator.
Alternator....very dirty down there
Alternator out. To get it out remove the two 16mm bolts and rotate it until it starts to slide out, it will be stiff.
The bottom bolt (longer one) goes through two holes at the front and back of the alternator. You can't pull it straight out because of this so you need to shift it down towards the wheel to get it to free up, then slide it out.
When you're sliding it out you need to be careful as there isn't much slack in the 2 connections. One is a click in and the other is held on with a nut.
The back of it with the two places on the left in this picture for the connectors I was talking about. Very dirty.
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Now to replace the voltage regulator. Take the 3 8mm nuts off to remove the back cover to expose it.
Voltage Regulator exposed, it's very dirty, loads of carbon.
And I was right, the brushes on the regulator are worn and the top one (there's two) had completely broken off and disintegrated leaving a mess of carbon everywhere.
There should be two brushes here but the one below is gone.
Cleaned (slightly) and new voltage regulator fitted.
To get a better look at the mess in there I jacked up the car and this is the only point I could put the stand.
Remove the wheel arch lining, a bucket load of screws...that's not even all of them!
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With the alternator out, it's a mess in there
And here's exactly what I was afraid of. It's not just the alternator bracket gasket its the chain cover gasket. They all tend to go around the same time.
So once I saw this I decided to stop, refit everything and reassess for another day. I think I'll end up dropping this into motor confidence to get all the gaskets done, get the valve stem seals done at the same time and they're bound to go at some stage.
So putting it all back together, it's like most guides say, just do the reverse.....EXCEPT....if you're fitting your own alternator back in then you need to do one thing.
The threaded hole at the back of the alternator that the long bolt goes through actually pulls itself toward the front of the alternator when it's being fitted, it's to make sure its a snug fit and doesn't move. Now this is a complete PITA if you didn't spot this and could lead to 2 hours of trying to get the alternator back in and loads of swearing and huffing and puffing.
So what you need to do before refitting is to screw the long bolt in slightly and get a rubber mallet and give it a good few tappy tappys until it slides back in. Now you can refit!
Back in with new pulley fitted.
Replacement pulley on bottom of alternator (INA number if anyone is interested).
Belt on
Bit of a clean underneath
All back together
(Video) Started...dunno why it sounds like I'm in a swimming pool
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Cleaned up and greased the brake pads all around as they started to squeal during braking since the track day. All good now, the grease on the sliding pins was like glue from the heat probably
Messed about with the diagnostics too and enabled automatic door locking once the car is moving and automatic double-locking when you press the lock button on the key fob.0 -
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Did you try to disable the auto locking feature? try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEw2kWuZFA
Nah it was already disabled. I enabled it 0 -
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Toyotafanboi wrote: »Another month, another oil and filter.
Generally I use Mobil oil and a Blueprint filter... Not any more :pac:
Nothing wrong with the blueprint filter tbh. They are actually good filters.0 -
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Foxhole Norman wrote: »They came with the spurious bumper I got for the Imola E39 :pac:
Damn
Mine are looking a bit tired too!0 -
Some wheel cleaning and sealing.
Spot the shard of metal stuck in the tyre? It didn't penetrate through thank god. I didn't realise the rears were so bad either, there's only about 14,000 miles on this set.
Have a full set of Continental Sport Contact 5's arriving next week. 0 -
Decided to stick a boost gauge in the Colt. Went for a mechanical one as I picked it up cheap off eBay and wanted a greddy one.
One filthy engine bay
From reading other forums, most people with the ralliart colts tap into the vacuum source here. Seeing as it's the same engine decided to do the same.
Was an absolute pain in the Arse trying to get the hose through the firewall without drilling a hole as there are no blank grommets to go through, but managed to get it in the existing hole with the main wiring loom.
Temporarily mounted on the dash via electrical tape until I decide where I want to properly mount it :pac:0 -
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