OOPS alternator woes.

[Mr Bump]

Had a play in the mud on Salisbury Plain this afternoon but finished the journey home on a flat bed.

AA chap was a good bloke and didn't seem to care that the 110 was covered from head to toe in a few layers of mud - off roader himself, in a Suzuki..

looks like the alternator is FUBAR

I'll apply the normal fixing teqnique of jetwash and WD40 tomorrow and check for any obvious loose wires.

Is replacing it a DIY option? Doesn't look too hard.

Where's a good place to get one from? A cursory glance at one of the comics suggests a new one is nearly £200!

Cheers
Andy

PS I had to ask the Patrol what would happen if I broke down on a Greenlane: he said he'd asked the question himself and the general answer was that if you could get another 4x4 to tow you to the edge of the tarmac then the AA would recover you. But if you were down the lane then a standard AA van couldn't get to you.  He recounted one story of the AA sending out a winch truck to recover someone who had broken down on a lane.

[Dangermouse]

I got a exchange alternator from halfords for £ 50, just unbolt & bolt on as easy as it look's really  :)

[speedfreak]

I got a new alternator for my 300tdi last week. Its a 75 amp jobbie and only took 10 mins to fit. (including changing the spade connectors to eyelets)...
Cost me £65 from my local motor factors....

[Topple]

I bought a recon kit off ebay, for £19, came with the bearings, brushes regulator and rectifier.

much cheaper option.

[Mr Bump]

Anyone done this job on a TD5?  :?

[Xtremeteam]

ive taken one off a TD5 disco when changing the engine & IIR it drives the waterpump out the back of the alternator

[Mr Bump]

Ta

Looks like it does a bit more than wizz round on a belt and provide electrickery via a cable...it's even got oil pipes going to and from it.

I'm rethinking my original thought that landys can usually be fixed with WD40 and the appropriately sized hammer.

[hobbit]

Some alternator systems power a vacuum pump of the back for the servo, would it be for that?

[Mr Bump]

errrrr, could be?  Really don't know..

Possibly a oil supply for the bearings in the round bit that wizzes round with the belt?

When are they doing a Paynes manual for the TD5?   :roll:

[hobbit]

No nothing about td5s, but the vacuum pump is oil  fed on other diesels I've seen, is there a pipe from the servo to the unit?

[Mr Bump]

Possibly, scuse my mechanical ignorance but is the servo the circular black thing?

[hobbit]

Usually has a fluid resevoir on the top of it, and a hose from it to the unit you have there

[veeeight]

Had a play in the mud on Salisbury Plain this afternoon but finished the journey home on a flat bed.

looks like the alternator is FUBAR

I'll apply the normal fixing teqnique of jetwash and WD40 tomorrow and check for any obvious loose wires.

Andy, if your alternator has a seperate brush/regulator pack on the back held on with 3 x 8mm head bolts, then that is probably your problem, if you take that of very carefully then you will more than likely find that the brushes are all gummed up with mud, (happens alot to mine as I cant keep out of the muddy ponds :lol: )
If you spray the brushes with WD40 and push them in and let them spring out, keep doing this untill they are nice and free then re-fit the pack (even more carefully than you took it off as its easy to snap the carbon brushes off :roll: ) and that should solve the problem.
Alternativly you can buy the brush pack/ rectifier from any good motor factors and replace the whole thing, alot cheaper than an alternator, I keep a spare one in the shed.
I got to do mine after Slindon on Sunday, Mine went after a couple of hours and ended up running both electrical systems off the one alternator. :lol: