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I can't get my hand on a manual so I am attempting to do this with
info from the net.

So far, I've learned that I need to loosen 2 bolts on the left (facing
the car), disconnect the electric cable, and remove the bolt on the
right side with another electrical connection, then loosen the belt
tensioner and slide out the alternator.

As I am trying to do this, I'm noticing it's not all that straight
forward. There isn't enough room to easily get to the bolts, but I
got some short wrenchs and at least now I can reach them. The 2
problems I can't get past are 1) the belt tension just seems to move
the pulley. I can't loosen the bolt on it. Is that how it's supposed
to be? and 2) There doesn't seem to be enough room to slide the
alternator out. Is there a trick to this?

Thanks!

Having never seen how the accord is setup, I can only
give you some pointers from when i did my civic alternator.
there was a bracket that the alternator was attached to that
needed to be removed. If I had not removed this bracket, I would have
needed
to remove the drivers side driveshaft, in fact this is what
it told me to do in my haynes manual.

Anyways, I won't presume that an accord v6 is the same, but
perhaps there is a similar bracket?

t

"disallow" <loewen_t@yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:<040ada1ba05187a78ddb116c6ca31337@localhost.t alkaboutautos.com>...
> Having never seen how the accord is setup, I can only
> give you some pointers from when i did my civic alternator.
> there was a bracket that the alternator was attached to that
> needed to be removed. If I had not removed this bracket, I would have
> needed
> to remove the drivers side driveshaft, in fact this is what
> it told me to do in my haynes manual.
>
> Anyways, I won't presume that an accord v6 is the same, but
> perhaps there is a similar bracket?
>
> t

pull the radiator fan assembly, it gives you lots of room.
Chip

chip@chipanddebby.com (Chip Stein) wrote in message news:<5ddcea74.0405241724.26d7107a@posting.google. com>...
> "disallow" <loewen_t@yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:<040ada1ba05187a78ddb116c6ca31337@localhost.t alkaboutautos.com>...
> > Having never seen how the accord is setup, I can only
> > give you some pointers from when i did my civic alternator.
> > there was a bracket that the alternator was attached to that
> > needed to be removed. If I had not removed this bracket, I would have
> > needed
> > to remove the drivers side driveshaft, in fact this is what
> > it told me to do in my haynes manual.
> >
> > Anyways, I won't presume that an accord v6 is the same, but
> > perhaps there is a similar bracket?
> >
> > t
>
> pull the radiator fan assembly, it gives you lots of room.
> Chip

That worked great! Thx!