It really depends on how long the fan/alternator belt is. Yes you may
have to move the alt. It is easy. Pull the plug wire, ake the bolt out of
the adjuster bracket, loosen the lower bolt, push alt towards engine,
remove belt, pull alt out of way, remove plug. Installation is the
reverse of the above. Also helps make sure your belt is tight.
Reason I know all this, 1) I have done it plenty of times, 2) I will be
doing it in about 15 min.
If the belt and adjuster slot are long enough you might not have to
remove the bolt, I just find it just as easy to do so.
Larry M.
>>>>On 9/30/99 14:55 so and so (Michael Walter) said. (And I quote:)
>Bought some new spark plugs for my '79 Midget. Question. Do I have to move
>the alternator to get to the #1 plug? Is it easy to get to the bolts, or,
>as someone asked, is one of the radiator hoses in the way? Please, no flame
>about looking at it first. I'm at work and the question came into my mind.
>
>Has anyone thought of making a ratching box-end wrench (they have them now)
>that would be about a inch deep? Use this to get at spark plugs where a
>ratchet/deep socket won't fit?
>Michael Walter
>mwalter@luminet.net
>http://www.luminet.net/~mwalter/
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>People cannot be made to see that
>which they are determined not to see.
>==============================
Larry Macy
78 Midget
Keep your top down and your chin up.
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, PA 19104
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