nuts up

[AlfaNeely@domain.elided]

Tess,
       You must be feeling better if you are worried about Olive Oyl.  Are 
you talking about the 10 or 12 mm 4 or 5 inch long bolt that the alternator 
pivots on?  If so, it was indeed double nutted under the alternator where you 
cannot see it.  Did they fail to get it attached correctly when they did the 
water pump?
       Only reason I can think of for not putting it in backwards is that it 
would rub on the fan belt.  I looked at an engine I have sitting in the 
garage and the bolt would go in backwards, but I have never done it that way. 
 I am sure that the head of the nut just clears the fan belt.  The other end 
of the bolt with double nuts would rub on fan belt.
       Just my not at all humble opinion.

Ciao,
Russ Neely
Oklahoma City



In a message dated 02/15/2002 1:36:39 PM Central Standard Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:



> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:15:08 -0800 (PST)
> From: Tessie McMillan <tessmc@domain.elided>
> Subject: nuts up
> 
> The other shoe dropped! 
> 
> I was waiting for something bad to happen after we replaced the water pump 
> on Olive Oil (my '87 spider Graduate). When the engine started sounding 
> really odd... like the fan was hitting the shroud, only it wasn't, it 
> turns out the bolt to the alternator had lost its nut (nuts? maybe that 
> was double-nutted), so the alternator was just a-hanging there.
> 
> OK so I need to affix the bolt again and get it right. Question: it 
> originally was bolted with the head of the bolt facing the fan, and the 
> nut (nuts) hidden and more inboard to the engine. A friend of mine made a 
> passing "nuts up" comment: if you can see the nuts, you know they are 
> there. 
> 
> Would this be a situation where I could reverse the direction of the bolt 
> and put the nuts facing the fan, where I could see them? 
> 
> Nutty Tess

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