Hey, I tried a search but didn't come up with anything too helpful.

My roommate and I are gonna install a new alternator on his '91 prelude Si tomorrow, and I was just wondering if anybody had some helpful instructions or tips. Anything beyond the obvious that I should look out for or be prepared for... Likewise if anybody knows of any helpful websites or whatever, that'd be great too. We don't have a hayne's and I doubt he's gonna buy one.

Thanks in advance for your help and your quick response... we're doing this tomorrow morning..... hopefully :happysad:

 

Try the 3g prelude online manual: http://www.honda.co.uk/owner/PreludeManual/index.html

 

link didn't work

 

link works ok here

 

works now, thanks. Anybody else?

 

well, we did it. Was pretty straight forward and easy... only took us about an hour or a little more, and much of that time was just figuring stuff out, which is wierd because the shop wanted to charge us for 2 hours... Anyway, thanks for the posts.

BTW, it took like 25-30 minutes to charge the battery when we were trying to jump it... why would it take so long?

 

Battery junk?... alternator needed to be broken in? Thats my guess... but congratz on getting it in with out any problems... :goodjob:

 

Well, the alternator was used, so I don't think in needed bo be "broken in" per say, but it probably had been sitting unused for a long time. I think the battery was OK tho.

Thanks