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Removal and replacement is not difficult. The procedure is straight forward. You need to remove the negative battery cable before you do anything. Then remove the air box. This is not hard, just time consuming. Once the air box is removed, you can remove the two cables on the alternator. Then you need to raise the car and loosen the alternator belt. I replaced both power steering and alternator belts at this time.
Loosen the two bots that hold the alternator to the car. The top one is fairly easy. The bottom bolt connects the alternator to the A/C compressor. It is a tight fit, but you need to loosen this bolt.
If you are not replacing the belts, you need to loosen the A/C-Alternator belt. To do this, loosen the two nuts that hold the A/C-Alternator turnbuckles to the car. If you don’t loosen them, when you adjust the turnbuckle to remove or loosen the belt, these bolts can break.
Once the turnbuckle is loose, you can push the A/C compressor toward the center of the car and can get the belt off the pulley.
Remove the bottom alternator bolt first, then the top bolt. You can now remove the alternator.
Hope this helps.
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