The job is a real pain. I had to change the brush assembly. The hardest part was the alternator mounting bolt, not the right side axle removal, not the exhaust y-pipe removal, not the sepentine belt removal. It is easy enoungh to get a wrench on the bolt head in it original configuration but you sure cannot turn it easily.
I thought about it and I modified the alternator bracket mounting for the next time I have to remove it by drilling out the threads on the aluminum bracket for the alternator large bolt and the use of a nut. I can now loosen it with a wrench on the wheel well side where it can be reached rather than only on the engine side where it is nearly inpossible to get any arc movement on the wrench. Now the next time it will be a snap. I just have to put a retaining wrench on the on the inside and undo the nut from the outside. A little loctite or a locking nut and no problems with any incidental loosening. Does any engineer at Ford have any common sense or do the accountants have all the say.
