engine shroud and alternator on a /6, removal in the car Options

[krk]

Folks,

Today, I'm taking advantage of the weather and trying to get to the alternator in my /6 -- which is apparently dead. Anyway, i have shop manuals which, and this is unusual, are almost useless for this.

The carbs and manifolds are out. All shroud bolts (that I can find) are out.

The shop manual thinks I can remove the shroud -- but there are "issues". for example, there is a wiring thing that goes through roughly the center of the shroud. (hopefully there
are detachable ends behind it somehow).

Are there tricks at this stage that I should be aware of? I found the secret bold behind the distributor, and the other two secret bolts accessed under the car at the back. Did I miss something?

Just taking a break -- almost time to go back at it. Any BTDT appreciated of course!

kim.

[krk]

BTDT.

Replaced the alternator of my 3.0 while it was in the car.

Only 3 wires go in the big hole in the shroud. When i took my alt out, i kinda puched the wires in to get me more room to pull the shroud away from the alt/fan housing. I then removed the small bolts for the air duct behind the alt (this was no fun). Removed the wires from the alt and finally got the shroud out of the way to remove the alt & fan housing.

I did have the belt and housing strap removed so i could tilt the housing to get to the bolts behing de shroud.

HTH

Marc-André

This is the approach I will take this morning. (thx, btw -- helps to know it's been successfully done before!)

As an aside, why wouldn't I cut the wires and install quick connects? I'm not going to this time, but it just seems to me that there must be modern connectors with the right properties to use somewhere in the middle of these three lines.....

Anyway, dawn is here and it should start warming up out there. Must get at 'er.

kim.