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
Its not terrible to get to from the bottom..........
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.
Front RIGHT wheel. Removing the alternator from the front left wheel well is a REAL bitch!!!!!
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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.
alternator bad or
Need to replace alternator.
Low voltage causes electrically controlled transmission to malfunction.
Jamie
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
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