The alternator in your Jeep charges the battery, control it ready to begin your engine when you committal it, and powers the ignition step further as the other electrical components in the Jeep when the engine is running. The alternator can wear over allotment and convert flimsy or bar working completely. Removing the alternator from your Jeep and having it tested Testament impel whether you call for to transform it. Most auto-parts stores Testament bench-test it autonomous whether you remove it from the engine and bring it to them.
Instructions
1. Allot the absent battery cable borderline on the antagonistic battery terminal and remove the retaining bolt with a wrench. Remove and isolate the battery cable from the battery while you spending money the alternator.
2. Install the serpentine belt over the alternator pulley, then rotate the tensioner back clockwise, allowing the belt to tighten.8. Install the negative battery cable end on the negative battery terminal, install the retaining bolt and tighten it with a wrench.
3. Procedure up to the alternator and fix the wiring-harness connectors on the rear. Depress the locking tab on the push-in connector and pull it outside of the alternator reason. Allot the moment connector, remove the retaining seed from the stud with a wrench, then pull the wire off the stud. Place the connectors aside.
4. Fix and remove the upper mounting bolt from the alternator with socket and ratchet. Change down to the lower mounting bolt and remove it with a socket and ratchet. Establish the bolts aside and lift the alternator off the mounting bracket and absent of the engine compartment.
5. Position the new alternator on the bracket and install the lower mounting bolt but do not tighten it yet. Install the upper mounting bolt into the alternator, then tighten both the upper and lower bolts with a socket and ratchet.
6. Install the push-in electrical connector into the connector on the back of the alternator. Push it in until the locking tab engages and the plug is secure. Slide the large wire with the ring connector onto the stub terminal on the back of the alternator, thread on the retaining nut and tighten it with a socket and ratchet.
7. Insert a ratchet into the square hole in the arm of the belt tensioner and rotate it counterclockwise. Allot the serpentine-belt tensioner on the front of the engine, ethical below the alternator. The alternator is on the passenger's side of the engine near the top. Compass a ratchet in the square gap on the face of the tensioner and rotate it counterclockwise to loosen the band. Slide the girdle off the alternator pulley and authorization it mendacity over the other pulleys.
