Thanks for the replies!

I did not use a torque wrench here but I had a breaker bar with an allen
socket on the shaft and a large full length wrench on the nut, and applied
"a lot" of torque.  Is the spec for this nut crazy large?  When I
disassembled, everything was still fully tight, and the split washer was
still completely and evenly compressed.

Can the shaft on the alternator be swapped out easily?

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> At 06:14 PM 5/21/2012, pickle vanagon wrote:
>
>> Here are the promised photos.
>> http://wesandmaria.com/images/**pulleys.jpg<http://wesandmaria.com/images/pulleys.jpg>
>>
>> http://wesandmaria.com/images/**shaft.jpg<http://wesandmaria.com/images/shaft.jpg>
>>
>
> Ouch!  Looks as though the nut wasn't torqued correctly.
>
> Yours,
> David
>