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How does one remove the alternator? Any helpful information would be
great. The red idot light just started to show it's ugly head. ---
Thanks

Do you have a manual?

If not, use the free online ones specific to the 88 Honda
Accord at www.autozone.com . It has good drawings.

Reports are often the only item needing replacement are the
brushes. People here often recommend just replacing the
brush assemblies and maybe the bearings, and there is plenty
of support on the net for alternator problems tracing to
simply the brushes. (I plan to do this pre-emptively within
about a year, so I'm prepping.)

Do you know where you're going to buy your parts?

Elle
Original and sole owner, 91 Civic, on its second alternator.

"JustLearning" <edbrehm2@yahoo.com> wrote
> How does one remove the alternator? Any helpful
information would be
> great. The red idot light just started to show it's ugly
head. ---
> Thanks
>

JustLearning wrote:
> How does one remove the alternator? Any helpful information would be
> great. The red idot light just started to show it's ugly head. ---
> Thanks

Go to autozone.com -- they have very clear repair manuals on line,
free.

It usually comes out from below. You may need to disconnect the
driveshaft to get it out. Sometimes you can snake it through other
ways.

Thanks for your help. I did look up autozone for the manual and found
not much information but do appreciate your trying. Do you have a
good source for ordering the alternator?

Ed

Elle wrote:
> Do you have a manual?
>
> If not, use the free online ones specific to the 88 Honda
> Accord at www.autozone.com . It has good drawings.
>
> Reports are often the only item needing replacement are the
> brushes. People here often recommend just replacing the
> brush assemblies and maybe the bearings, and there is plenty
> of support on the net for alternator problems tracing to
> simply the brushes. (I plan to do this pre-emptively within
> about a year, so I'm prepping.)
>
> Do you know where you're going to buy your parts?
>
> Elle
> Original and sole owner, 91 Civic, on its second alternator.
>
> "JustLearning" <edbrehm2@yahoo.com> wrote
> > How does one remove the alternator? Any helpful
> information would be
> > great. The red idot light just started to show it's ugly
> head. ---
> > Thanks
> >

Thanks. I did go to Autozone but perhaps I missed the right place.
Do you have a link to the right place there. I will try again now.

Thanks

JustLearning wrote:
> Thanks for your help. I did look up autozone for the manual and found
> not much information but do appreciate your trying. Do you have a
> good source for ordering the alternator?
>

Here you go:
http://autozone.com/servlet/UiBroker...3d800cf8ff.jsp

Hey, Elle -- "Jinxed!" We posted around the very same time, same
answer. Great minds think alike, huh?

Remco

"JustLearning" <edbrehm2@yahoo.com> wrote
> Thanks for your help. I did look up autozone for the
manual and found
> not much information but do appreciate your trying. Do
you have a
> good source for ordering the alternator?

In the Autozone free online Repair Guide for the 88 Accord
you have to go to the following sections in order to get to
the alternator removal etc. section:

"Engine & Engine Overhaul," then
"Engine Electrical," then
"Alternator"

See if the following link works:

http://www.autozone.com/servlet/UiBr...rdPage=/az/cds
/en_us/0900823d/80/0c/f8/ff/0900823d800cf8ff.jsp#hd1-1-3

I suggest buying the brush and holder /assembly/ (not just
the brush) from www.slhonda.com (California) or
www.hondaautomotiveparts.com (Rhode Island), depending on
where you live. I have purchased from both and think they're
both good, price-, service-, and shipping-wise. People here
say that buying the assembly makes life a lot easier

I would consider replacing the bearings on such an old
alternator, though I say that based only on general reading
here at the newsgroup.

Elle wrote:
> "JustLearning" <edbrehm2@yahoo.com> wrote
> > Thanks for your help. I did look up autozone for the
> manual and found
> > not much information but do appreciate your trying. Do
> you have a
> > good source for ordering the alternator?
>
> In the Autozone free online Repair Guide for the 88 Accord
> you have to go to the following sections in order to get to
> the alternator removal etc. section:
>
> "Engine & Engine Overhaul," then
> "Engine Electrical," then
> "Alternator"
>
> See if the following link works:
>
> http://www.autozone.com/servlet/UiBr...rdPage=/az/cds
> /en_us/0900823d/80/0c/f8/ff/0900823d800cf8ff.jsp#hd1-1-3
>
> I suggest buying the brush and holder /assembly/ (not just
> the brush) from www.slhonda.com (California) or
> www.hondaautomotiveparts.com (Rhode Island), depending on
> where you live. I have purchased from both and think they're
> both good, price-, service-, and shipping-wise. People here
> say that buying the assembly makes life a lot easier
>
> I would consider replacing the bearings on such an old
> alternator, though I say that based only on general reading
> here at the newsgroup.

Jinxed again!! Wow, who'da thunk it!!!

"Remco" <whybcuz@yahoo.com> wrote
> JustLearning wrote:
> > Thanks for your help. I did look up autozone for the
manual and found
> > not much information but do appreciate your trying. Do
you have a
> > good source for ordering the alternator?
> >
>
> Here you go:
>
http://autozone.com/servlet/UiBroker...ge=/az/cds/en_
us/0900823d/80/0c/f8/ff/0900823d800cf8ff.jsp
>
> Hey, Elle -- "Jinxed!" We posted around the very same
time, same
> answer. Great minds think alike, huh?

Yes. Do you too hesitate to post links to specific
Autozone.com manual pages?The Autozone site has some kind of
warning on it about doing that, so I try to keep links like
yours and mine to a minimum and/or try to give Autozone some
of my business for Goop, Loc-Tite, PB Blaster, etc.

Getting to their repair manuals, and of course the correct
section, is a bit tricky. But it is truly free, and Autozone
encourages people to take advantage of this resource.

Elle wrote:
>
> Yes. Do you too hesitate to post links to specific
> Autozone.com manual pages?The Autozone site has some kind of
> warning on it about doing that, so I try to keep links like
> yours and mine to a minimum and/or try to give Autozone some
> of my business for Goop, Loc-Tite, PB Blaster, etc.
>
> Getting to their repair manuals, and of course the correct
> section, is a bit tricky. But it is truly free, and Autozone
> encourages people to take advantage of this resource.

That long string looks too much like some sort of cache string on their
server. It probably loses validity after the cashe refreshes in a day
or two. In this case the OP seems to be on line when we both are so the
string should be ok as long as he tries it soon.

Yup - I do like autozone because you can find almost anything. Those on
line tech manuals are hard to beat. Prices are pretty good too.
While driving there, there's one place that I usually try first, just
to pass them the business. It is one of the last mom and pop hold outs
- smells like WD40 too
Have been dealing with them since I was a kid so it is a solidarity
thing.