Beast from da Middle East

[Sharpe]

Old one should work.

[Seth]

You dont use a gear puller on the alternator pulley...

It has a conical wedge holding the serpentine pulley to the alterntor shaft. The shaft is not tapered but the hole in the pulley is. If you take the nut off and look at the shaft, you can see the ~1/8" thick end of the wedge with the split in it. You have to get a socket or piece of pipe big enough to go around the wedge but fit inside the face of the pulley. You then beat the piss out of the pulley and it will loosen the wedge free. Its best to put the alternator face up on a piece of wood with the back on the housing where the shaft is supported directly on the wood. This will somewhat absorb the impact of the hammer whacks and hopefully keep you from FUBARing anything on the case. Make sure the threaded post on the back of the case is not taking the brunt of the hits, its insulation WILL break. Then just getcha a normal v-belt pulley and bolt that ***** on there, it is just held in place by friction, no wedge involved.

Straight from the GM manual, right?

[BMFScout]

Straight from the GM manual, right?

Actually it's from the Haynes manual, he jst omitted the part about chocking the wheels and disconnecting the battery.

[Seth]

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Something doesn't look right, what are the three large pins in the 12o'clock position for?



I may go ahead and install it tomorrow if I can find the pigtail that I have misplaced.

[Sharpe]

Yah about those three large pins...

Never seen them before

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Once I install it, I will put the tester to them to see if they are hot. If so, a round of electrical tape will be in order me thinks.

[TexTJ209]

Did you buy the heated windshield version?


Edit: Some quick googling turned up this.

http://www.cadillacforums.com/forums/1522810-post5.html

That's why I said not to buy the heated windshield version. Those are the AC connectors for the heated windshield.

[eight]

Not sure what the hell you got there. Looks like they'd be for the 3 sets of windings. But I see internal avalanche style diodes in there. Any reason they would have needed low voltage AC power? Looks like you need to take it apart and investigate.

[Sharpe]

Fawk nothing I've ever read about heated windshields said anything about A/C power! What kind of AC voltage are we talking here? Enough to run, say..., a microwave?

[TexTJ209]

Fawk nothing I've ever read about heated windshields said anything about A/C power! What kind of AC voltage are we talking here? Enough to run, say..., a microwave?

Nope.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Fawk nothing I've ever read about heated windshields said anything about A/C power! What kind of AC voltage are we talking here? Enough to run, say..., a microwave?

Just what I was thinking.

Nope.

****.

No mattah, I will take care of it.

[BMFScout]

I bet it's enough ac power to power up some twinkly lights for the Christmas Parade at Clayton...

[uglyota]

Put a voltmeter on them before you tape them up...I bet it puts out as much power as a decent sized inverter. It will certainly be more efficient than an inverter.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

If not, I will have heated seats though.