TR2/3/3A Alternator

[Britter]

The nuts and bolts loosened on the alternator on my TR3A scattering all, plus spacers, somewhere in the countryside. The new replacement kits (two…) with bracket plus bits don’t fit. My car for the last two weeks lifted on one side looks like a dog at a fire hydrant. Garage narrow. With considerable physical effort working on my back, on oily cardboard, under car, fingers too far from my old eyes to focus on, dust, dirt and rust bits falling in my eyes, bloody nicks and bruises on one arm (the other arm holding the flashlight doesn’t fit up there anyway) the question is. The alternator is the fourth in about eight years. It worked the longest. Should I bite the bullet and get everything new? Getting up, by the way, is even harder. Thanks

 

[charleyf]

The nuts and bolts loosened on the alternator on my TR3A scattering all, plus spacers, somewhere in the countryside. The new replacement kits (two…) with bracket plus bits don’t fit. My car for the last two weeks lifted on one side looks like a dog at a fire hydrant. Garage narrow. With considerable physical effort working on my back, on oily cardboard, under car, fingers too far from my old eyes to focus on, dust, dirt and rust bits falling in my eyes, bloody nicks and bruises on one arm (the other arm holding the flashlight doesn’t fit up there anyway) the question is. The alternator is the fourth in about eight years. It worked the longest. Should I bite the bullet and get everything new? Getting up, by the way, is even harder. Thanks

To be able to help you we need to know what you are actually working on. You state alternator. But the TR3 has a generator that is often replaced by an alternator. The alternators are often attached by owner invented parts, that includes me.

Please give us more information so that out input is meaningful.

Charley