Did some work on the Stang today

KBExperience

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can you tell which part is new??

 

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Looks like it is the top pece of your intake

 

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Alternator.

 

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68stang351 said:

Alternator.

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and the winner is...

lol

 

twogts4us

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KBExperience said:

can you tell which part is new??

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The shiny thingie missing the belt...

Geez, and I thought you did something exciting...

Hopefully this will bring you what's most important to all of us - reliability.

 

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haha, yeah. the alternator made the car crap out on me at random times over the last couple of weeks.

but yeah, i took some pics.. im gonna do a write up eventually

 

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What TB spacer is that?

 

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your missing an intake.....lol. jk. thats a cool new alternator though.

 

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im still jk.

 

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Props for representing the general public. Most of the mustang world isnt bolting up some form of FI or anything wild at all when wrenching on their stang. I just replaced pads and rotors on my 35th. woooooo. haha.

alternator looks good! ha

 

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Props for representing the general public. Most of the mustang world isnt bolting up some form of FI or anything wild at all when wrenching on their stang. I just replaced pads and rotors on my 35th. woooooo. haha.

alternator looks good! ha

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i know! its shiny

but it makes the rest of the engine look like crap

 

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Dang. I was hoping to find something interesting, but all I saw was a shiney alternator with no belt.

Pretty soon, I'll throw in my PI cams and start a thread like this, but have everything buttoned up. Then, let you guys guess what is new.

 

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KBExperience said:

i know! its shiny

but it makes the rest of the engine look like crap

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I just replaced mine this week too. I was thinking I should transfer all the guts into my old alternator case so it matches the hard earned, year-by-year, mile-by-mile patina on the rest of the motor

Except for that one damn bolt on the power steering pump (now rusting in peace, far, far away) and that one starter bolt (haven't had to wrestle with that one, but not looking forward to it), this is the easiest car to work on I've ever had. The alternator would've taken about 2 minutes except the stupid underdrive pulley on the water pump was blocking one of the bolts so I had to pull that off too - that made it a 4 minute job

 

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KBExperience said:

haha, yeah. the alternator made the car crap out on me at random times over the last couple of weeks.

but yeah, i took some pics.. im gonna do a write up eventually

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Can you tell us exactly what it was doing? My granddad's Mach randomly crapped out on us a couple of weekends ago. It started running really rough, threw a code (3 cylinders had misfired), and the headlights wouldn't work right. My first thought was alternator, but it hasn't done it again since, and it's hard to fix something that isn't broke.

-Will

 

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Can you tell us exactly what it was doing? My granddad's Mach randomly crapped out on us a couple of weekends ago. It started running really rough, threw a code (3 cylinders had misfired), and the headlights wouldn't work right. My first thought was alternator, but it hasn't done it again since, and it's hard to fix something that isn't broke.

-Will

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well, one night i drove to college station, and when i got to my friends apartment my radio turned off, and my battery gauge was all the way at the bottom. and when i would rev my engine the gauge would go back up for a second and go back down. the same thing happened again on halloween. So i took it to autozone and they tested it.. and it had a bad diode.

i took it to my buddys shop, and he called my extended warranty people and he quoted them the price for the alternator, a new belt and the installation and they sent him the money. My warranty has a 100 dollar deductable.. so i just installed it myself.. so i pretty much got my alternator for free!