am i missing an alternator bolt?

[txranger14]

removed the pivot bolt on the alternator but cant seem to find any other bolt. the book says there is one on the side closest to the front, but i cant see it at all. trying to remove the alt to go get a new one..

[KingFish]

13 or 14 mm at the bottom of the alt. You get to the head of the bolt form the back of the alt.

[txranger14]

i can feel it, but im going to have to be a contortionist to get to it. its under a mount and right besides the a/c hoses.

[zoom zoom]

It's a lot easier from under the car, especially when removing the alt. 14mm down below, and 12mm for the top tensioner bolt.

[KingFish]

It gets easy after the fourth or fifth time you do.

[Banana Bonanza]

Yes, from underneath is way to do it at least on Festy with original carb setup. I am spoiled, when I switched to Mazda 1.6L engine, I used the intake that came with it and it was offset more towards drivers side thus opening access to alternator and oil filter from topside. I also switched to Weber carb and eliminated the bushel basket of spaghetti and add ons surrounding carb. Life got lot easier. I hated crawling under the car just to change stupid oil filter.

[Movin]

It gets easy after the fourth or fifth time you do.

[muleskinner]

It's a lot easier from under the car, especially when removing the alt. 14mm down below, and 12mm for the top tensioner bolt.

Ditto!

[WmWatt]

Right, after you've been under the car and seen where everything it is it's pretty easy to replace and adjust belt tension from above by feel alone. There may be a photo in the Haynes manaul.

[200KGPGTP]

It gets easy after the fourth or fifth time you do.

This. Pretty sure I could do it in like 10 minutes now lol