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Please walk me thru an alternator brush replacement for a '91 Integra gs
Like where is the alt? Is it driver or pass. side. Is it hidden by the
plastic baffles from below? I have the car jacked up one one side. Is this the assembly? http://catalog.eautopartscatalog.com...=ipb&clientid= alleurasianautoparts&baseurl=http://www.alleurasianautoparts.com/ &cookieid=1L80TI5411L80TI540&year=1991&make=AC&mod el=INT-GS3-001&category= F&part=Alternator+Brush+Assy. Is there a better place to buy it? Can't find it locally. I threw in a new battery and the battery light and antilock brake lights are still on. I've read here the alt. is accessible from below and brush replacement is not hard, especially with the entire assembly. The only manual I have is for my olde '78 civic. I'm in your hands. Cheers |
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Jacked both sides of the car up and found the alt. I can see 2 nuts,
and feel a third. I'll pull off the neg battery pole, then try to get a wrench up in there. I feel like I'm talking to myself. Well, whatever works..... |
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"finding z0" > wrote in message oups.com... > Like where is the alt? Is it driver or pass. side. Is it hidden by the > plastic baffles from below? I have the car jacked up one one side. Is > this the assembly? > http://catalog.eautopartscatalog.com...=ipb&clientid= > alleurasianautoparts&baseurl=http://www.alleurasianautoparts.com/ > &cookieid=1L80TI5411L80TI540&year=1991&make=AC&mod el=INT-GS3-001&category= > F&part=Alternator+Brush+Assy. Is there a better place to buy it? Can't > find it locally. I threw in a new battery and the battery light and > antilock brake lights are still on. I've read here the alt. is > accessible from below and brush replacement is not hard, especially > with the entire assembly. The only manual I have is for my olde '78 > civic. I'm in your hands. Cheers Not available locally? Dealer? Judging from the pic of it....I'm not entirely sure that can be done without splitting the case. If it can, it's aVERY clever design |
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www.autozone.com under its free online repair guides has instructions and
drawings for removing the alternator from your 91 Integra GS. Once you put in your car's year, make, and model, then go to the free repair guides, it's under "Engine and Engine Overhaul." I didn't see anything on brush replacement. If the site doesn't come up perfectly, refresh several times. But I am concerned that new brushes won't fix the problem. Are you having other symptoms, besides the two warning lights? "finding z0" > wrote in message oups.com... > Jacked both sides of the car up and found the alt. I can see 2 nuts, > and feel a third. I'll pull off the neg battery pole, then try to get a > wrench up in there. I feel like I'm talking to myself. Well, whatever > works..... > |
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Battery died and alt won't charge it. Battery guy said the batt. was
good but the alt wasn't. Threw in a new battery and the battery and anti-lock lights still come on. Symptoms consistent with an alt. problem. Lights stay on. If I can manage this repair (while waiting to get a dealer app't) and it works, it's a cheap fix. Win/win/lose(dealer). Teggar has done this repair in 2002. I found his post. He had to unsolder the old and resolder the new brush in. His Integra was manual w/o AC. It's tight in there. I have a manual tranny with AC. The brush assembly should just pop in I suspect. I guess I'm asking for some details. Best place to buy, what about insulating washers, etc. Cheers |
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"finding z0" > wrote in message oups.com... > Battery died and alt won't charge it. Battery guy said the batt. was > good but the alt wasn't. Threw in a new battery Why? |
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This car has eaten a battery every 4 yrs since '91. Thought I'd try the
usual fix. $40 for a battery ain't bad. They gave me back $23 since it was waranteed. Probably the alt. has been undercharging all along? Now it's probably given up the ghost. |
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"finding z0" > wrote
> I guess I'm > asking for some details. Best place to buy, what about insulating > washers, etc. Cheers Your site http://www.alleurasianautoparts.com/ seems competitive. For my 91 Civic LX, Majestic online wants at least $185 to ship a remanufactured Denso alternator. The site says nothing about a core credit. Your site wants $158 (shipping of the reman'd alt is free) + the cost of shipping your old core back to them. This is for the same reman'd Denso alternator. The alternator weighs about ten pounds, so the shipping charge might be ten or twenty dollars (dunno). I would call the dealer for this one, since the various shipping costs might make the dealer about as competitive as the online sites. I was shopping around for a fender for my 91 Civic recently, and since shipping was so expensive, buying from the dealer was almost the same price. |
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Working from underneath, after unbolting, disconnecting, staring,
prying and getting covered with grease (this auto recently needed a new oil pan as the drain bolt was stripped), I finally got the back? cover off the alt.There's room for one eye and one hand under there. I then spied the brush assembly I'd seen on websites. Didn't know what held it in. I had to remove 2 screws to free up the brush assembly (one i could see and didn't know if it held the brushes, the other I found when the thing wouldn't let go on the other side. Afraid of stripping the first screw and ending my quest it finally came out. A diagram would've been helpful. Second one came out easy. Pulled the brush assembly. Nope, camel hair they're not. Thick metallic rectangles, spring loaded, and concave on the business end where they must make contact with a shaft to exchange juice. Nope, I've never taken apart an electric motor. I'll order the part and see if i can slam this thing back together. Whether it works or not i will have learned at least 3 things. One, if you work under a car yer gonna get dirty, and two, if you stare at something long enough you can usually figure it out while not necessarily avoiding eye strain. Then 3 the most important. Persistence, the ability to focus on something long after most people with good sense would've dropped. Wait! I already knew both those things. |
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