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Fri 23 Jun 2006 13:57
Location alternator primera - urgent!! - teabelly
Alternator on primera we bought a few weeks ago has failed. We have a replacement alternator. Can't find where the old one is! There is a correct sized looking item top front of the engine attached to pulleys. Haynes doesn't give us a clue. Where is it?! Everything is getting a bit fraught as the car needs to be ready for tomorrow for sister in law and her family, eeek!

Any clues?!
teabelly
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Fri 23 Jun 2006 14:04
Location alternator primera - urgent!! - Altea Ego
It will be the only small paint tin looking device with *just* electrical wires coming out of it. Anything else on a pulley that has pipes as well is not an alternator. They also normally have slots cut in the side or one end (pulley end normally) for ventilation.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Fri 23 Jun 2006 14:09
Location alternator primera - urgent!! - teabelly
Luckily it is the altenatory looking thing at the front :-) He disconnected it and the car still cranks so luckily the alternator isn't the obscured thing attached to the pulleys at the back. I think we would have gone mental had it been! The one on the car has some sort of covering over the vents or is a slightly different design to the one we have as a replacement which confused things.

It is amazing how trying to do things under pressure means you really can't see clearly....
teabelly
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Fri 23 Jun 2006 14:14
Location alternator primera - urgent!! - Altea Ego
Those workmates Mr Panic and his his apprentice urgency and YTS trainee dispair, are guaranteed to cock up any job they are involved in.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Fri 23 Jun 2006 15:30
Phew I can relax.... - teabelly
Everything is sorted now at last. Alternator seems to have been replaced before as the one from it isn't a nissan one. Will now mostly be working Mr Nice Cup Of Tea :-)
teabelly
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