alternator

[Carl and Renee Diamond]

have a 94 satun sl1 ,had a battery connection problem solved it with a new
terminal when coming home noticed abs and battery light on checked the
charging by disconnecting battery cable engine died . is alternator bad or
is there a fuse im missing that i may have blown when reconecting battery,
before connection problem everything worked great please help alternator
seemed to be in hard place to change

 

[BANDIT2941]

please help alternator

seemed to be in hard place to change

Its not terrible to get to from the bottom..........

 

[Philip Nasadowski]

please help alternator seemed to be in hard place to change

It's actually NOT that bad.

The trick is to lift the car on jack stands and get to it from the
bottom. Use 1/4" drive tools, and remove the front wheel and splash
cover.

Clean the shield off when you do this.

I did it in an evening one night. It's not hard at all.

 

[Kirk Kohnen]

Front RIGHT wheel. Removing the alternator from the front left wheel well is
a REAL bitch!!!!!



;-)

 

[Carl and Renee Diamond]

thanks for the information had some more problems this morning had enough
juice to start engine but automatic transmission seemed like stuck in third
gear talking to someone i think is in the know says if electrical system is
weak will cause other things to go haywire just dont want to go to trouble
of replacing alternator and finding a bigger problem please advise

 

[Napalm Heart]

Weak alternator - battery will cause erratic auto trans operation.
This isn't saying that you might not have trans problems. The timing
of the symptoms is the key. Trans problems showing up at the same
time as the electrical problems indicates that there's a high
probability of the problems being connected.

This link to a Google group search should be enlightening.
http://groups.google.com/groups?sourceid=navclient&q=Saturn+electrical+transmission+problem

Ken

 

[BANDIT2941]

thanks for the information had some more problems this morning had enough

juice to start engine but automatic transmission seemed like stuck in third
gear talking to someone i think is in the know says if electrical system is
weak will cause other things to go haywire just dont want to go to trouble
of replacing alternator and finding a bigger problem please advise

Need to replace alternator.

Low voltage causes electrically controlled transmission to malfunction.

Jamie

 

[AJRBJR]

remove the front wheel and splash

cover.

You may be able to just turn the wheels to the left, remove the splash guard
and get the alternator out without removing the wheel although that seems to be
the peferred method. I have a 96SL2 and I got mine out with the wheel on
without a problem.

Andy