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MOTORCRAFT Alternators: Overhaul: Disassembly

  1. Scribe mark across front and rear housings and stator for alignment during reassembly. Remove through bolts and separate front housing and rotor from rear housing and stator.
  2. Remove terminal nuts and insulators from rear housing and separate stator/rectifier assembly from housing. Remove brushes and brush holder.
  3. To remove stacked type rectifier, remove stator terminal screw and grounded screw by turning them 1/4 turn to unlock from rectifier. Unsolder leads from rectifier using caution not to overheat rectifier assembly. To remove flat type rectifier, remove stator terminal screw by pressing straight out of rectifier. Do NOT turn screw or remove grounded screws. Unsolder leads from rectifier.
  4. Remove front pulley and fan, then separate rotor from housing and bearing. Bearing may be replaced by removing retainer screws and retainer.
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