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Thanks guys! The passenger wheel is off and there’s lots of things under the car in that area, so things are underway. I’m not sure how much time has been invested thus far, but it’s been in its current “dismantling” state for about 5 days now. I’m guessing he was at a point that he had to get up and just walk away before he threw something in a fit of rage. I know for sure he spends about 45 minutes a day (give it take) cursing about it.

Just did this pretty recently. Yeah, first time I did it, took me about 6 hrs. Once I figured out how to do it and such, I'm now in the 45 min to an hour club.

I can recall doing that in my old garage shortly after I purchased the car. I didn't even have a license yet. Me and my dad were reading the forum post. We were thinking that is a lot of work for an alternator and cursing you guys for saying it was 45 minutes lol. I think I even had to borrow some tools from my grandfather at the time. He came over with his 98 z71, with jack stands and a few other things. Good times back then. I owned that car for over 10 years, and only had to do the alternator one time. This forum taught me a lot, along with my dad and grandfather. I did my first brake job when I was around 10 years old with my grandfather on a Corvair.

As I recall when Chris and I did that his car was no stranger to being taken apart and may or may not have had all the hardware the factory installed to hold the alternator in, as well as both of us having had done that job a number of times previously. However it was in the parking lot of his apartment complex with nothing but hand tools so there's that.

This is why I joined this forum nearly 15 years ago now. The 45 minutes is a lie (at least for my dumbass back then), but this did help a lot. The pictures are long gone.

Despite being there for that way back in the day.... I'd have to really dig around for the post and it would probably be of little utility by now. If I remember right, support the car, disconnect the tie rod end from the knuckle. remove all the plastic shrouding in the wheel well remove the 2 subframe bolts from the right side of the subframe and lower it down enough to access the mounting bolts for the alternator and associated wiring and then weasel it out the wheel well Thats how I used to do them, usually took round abouts of an hour. If its your first time its gonna suck they get easier after that. This is a vast over simplification, I'm sure. Its been years since I had to do one, and like Schurkey last time I did one the engine was on a stand so it was super easy.

I can't help. The only time I changed an alternator on one of my Lumina Euro 3.4s, I did it from the top--with the cam carrier and cylinder head removed. Very easy with that out of the way. Not gonna happen in 45 minutes, though. I also took the opportunity to install a block heater, and perform a "valve job" since I had the head off due to a blown head gasket.