So my truck wont start a couple of days ago and I call AAA for a jump, guy gets here and jumps me, truck starts, everything's fine right? Nope..truck dies while the guy is there. Looks like the alternator is dead, only putting out around 10 volts, comes back with an open diode reading on the tester. So I go grab an alternator, a new belt (may as well) and a new high amp plug (which I didn't need, the old ones still nice and snug so it's getting returned). Get the belt off, get the set bolt out, start on the pivot bolt and....nope. So I hose her down with PB blaster and wait 15 minutes or so. Get in there now and she starts to budge a little but not real easy and then POP! bolt head pops off. I've got no easy outs and no time to get into her that deep so I have the truck towed over to a local mechanic.


Ok so this is where it gets good...the guy the shop gave my truck to, to work on goes about trying to get that steel bolt that's stuck in an aluminum alternator and an aluminum drive belt pulley bracket to loosen up with an acetylene torch


At which point I get a call from the shop telling me that the bolt is REALLY stuck and that they want to use a plasma cutter to cut the alternator out of the bracket but can't find a replacement bracket anywhere. I tell them to stop working on the truck and wait till I come in to talk with the guy and we can figure out where we're going from here.


I get in there and the bolt is now "free" as they've melted the whole pivot bolt spacer section on the alternator open and the bolt is now "free" (there goes that $60 core from NAPA) but the bolt is still stuck in the bracket which has also been melted but not too, too badly. Still has good threads and a solid section where the bolt is. I tell him to put his torch away and just use a grinder to cut the bolt through the now ruined alternator housing down to the threaded area and back in out the other way since he's also beggared up the threads at the tip badly enough that they would never come through properly.


So, as I'm looking on rockauto for the bracket that all the emissions pumps, the alternator, and the belt tensioner is supported by I realize I have no idea what it's called and can't find a diagram that has it listed. Luckily the original was salvageable so I don't need one but I'd still like to know what its called.


SO what is it called? and does anyone know a place where I can get a good blowup diagram of my engine components? It's the motor that came in the 1992 F-150 XLT with the 5.0/302 A/T RWD.


Thanks in advance for any info


cheers

 

93 views and nobody?


Theres gotta be a copy of the exploded view of parts for my truck out there somewhere (aside from the Bishko dealership loose leaf parts guides rockauto has that costs $300-$400). Ford has them on their site but it makes you look up the part individually before it lets you click on the diagram which defeats my purpose because I'm not sure exactly what they call that specific part.

 

Can you post pictures....

Because if you do the 3G alternator swap you have to drill the holes out larger and cut some parts of the original bracket to fit the 3g alternator in....That is just an idea...Not sure how bad they screwed it up.