Well, My $200 beater has finally failed on me, well sort of. I knew the alternator was on it's last leg. I kinda just let the problem go till it hopefully got warmer. well this weekend was that last straw. Car just stalled as I pulled into the driveway due to a lack of voltage.
SO.. off to Napa. I picked up a new Belt for the hefty price of $9 but they wanted $220 for a alternator! Oh ya the car is a 88 dodge omni. So I went ot Autozone, $35 more like it. get to work on the car (this is tuesday afternoon) nice brisk 25 degree's out get the old alternator out and come to find out the internal bearings are shot, and the water pump pully is bent a little, which leads me to believe that the water pump bearings are in rough shape. All this is due to the Vibration Isolator that is in-between the Alternator and the tension assembly was completely destroyed Got everything out, had to head to work. Yesturday (wed) on my way home from Job #1 I headed to the Salvage Yard and there was only one omni in the yard. same year same motor, and it had a complete engine!! Yippy
So I pulled the water pump, alternator tension assembly and vibration isolator that I needed ($8), headed home and got to work. Water pump goes in no problem. go to put the tension assembly and Vib Iso in and it doesn't fit. Not even close. Turns out the engine i pulled this unit off had a 120 amp alternator and mine is a 90 amp unit, for some reason, completly different assemblies. So Now I had to go back to the Salvage Yard, could not find the part any where. checked all other plymouths and dodges, all were different. spent about 2 hours in the salvage yard until I took a risk and looked under the hood os a old Mitsubishi eclipse, there is my part, struggle to get it out, get it out, but this one is beat worse than mine. So I gave up, walked back to my jeep to head to the stealership, and would you believe it, there on the ground, a random motor, and there is my part!! so I take off the motor, got it for free cause the bone yard owner felt bad for my pathetic a$$ spent the better half of the evening getting everything all buttoned up. Runs like a Gem.
Woke up this morning, ya I have a soar throat and feel miserable. go figure.
Just needed to vent a little!
Thanks for reading the pointless rambles of a sick jeeper!
SO.. off to Napa. I picked up a new Belt for the hefty price of $9 but they wanted $220 for a alternator! Oh ya the car is a 88 dodge omni. So I went ot Autozone, $35 more like it. get to work on the car (this is tuesday afternoon) nice brisk 25 degree's out get the old alternator out and come to find out the internal bearings are shot, and the water pump pully is bent a little, which leads me to believe that the water pump bearings are in rough shape. All this is due to the Vibration Isolator that is in-between the Alternator and the tension assembly was completely destroyed Got everything out, had to head to work. Yesturday (wed) on my way home from Job #1 I headed to the Salvage Yard and there was only one omni in the yard. same year same motor, and it had a complete engine!! Yippy
So I pulled the water pump, alternator tension assembly and vibration isolator that I needed ($8), headed home and got to work. Water pump goes in no problem. go to put the tension assembly and Vib Iso in and it doesn't fit. Not even close. Turns out the engine i pulled this unit off had a 120 amp alternator and mine is a 90 amp unit, for some reason, completly different assemblies. So Now I had to go back to the Salvage Yard, could not find the part any where. checked all other plymouths and dodges, all were different. spent about 2 hours in the salvage yard until I took a risk and looked under the hood os a old Mitsubishi eclipse, there is my part, struggle to get it out, get it out, but this one is beat worse than mine. So I gave up, walked back to my jeep to head to the stealership, and would you believe it, there on the ground, a random motor, and there is my part!! so I take off the motor, got it for free cause the bone yard owner felt bad for my pathetic a$$ spent the better half of the evening getting everything all buttoned up. Runs like a Gem.
Woke up this morning, ya I have a soar throat and feel miserable. go figure.
Just needed to vent a little!
Thanks for reading the pointless rambles of a sick jeeper!