Unless your generator is bad, or you want to run a highpower stereo, just leave it.
To do the swap. I'd use a 2 wire alternator, they're $30 at any parts house.
You need to get a DA plug, go to NAPA and ask for one, or call Patrick and pay $20 for one. You also need an alternator mounting kit, $50 from Patrick, or you can use some 3/8" all thread and about 6 nuts to make a mount out of your generator mount.
1. Unhook the battery.
2. Remove the F wire from the generator and fold it back onto the wiring harness. Remove the F wire from the voltage regulator and fold it back onto the wiring harness.
3. Connect the 2 wires left on the voltage regulator to each other using a nut and bolt and make sure they are insulated with electrical tape or some other wrap. You can splice them together, but then it will be harder to return it to original.
4. Remove the voltage regulator from the firewall.
5. Remove the Generator and the lower generator bracket from the motor. This is where you use the alternator bracket you bought, of fiddle with your generator bracket to make it work, for about $5. Put the alternator onto the engine block.
6. Plug the DA connector into the alternator.
7. Disconnect the wire from the A post on the Generator and connect it to the BAT post on the alternator along with the red DA plug wire.
8. Run the white or yellow DA plug back through the firewall to the ignition switch and hook it up to the IGN post.
9. Use black electrical tape or harness wrap to wrap the harness where the ugly white or yellow wire runs through the fire wall and cover up the F wire from the generator.
10 Connect the battery and you are done. Start up the car and smile.
Chris
[ 01-17-2002: Message edited by: inverse121 ]
