Normal for me.  Four re-dos--I figure each one represents a decade of age, so, if you started working on cars when you were 20 . . .  

But I could be wrong, my son often seems to have the same problem.

Solving puzzles like this is good brain exercise for what brain I have left.

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Rogers
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 6:23 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: If you are putting the alternator back in........ lesson

Over the winter I took a few things out of my 1990 Tristar to rebuild/clean up check them. Wiring harness, throttle body, intake manifold (well paint anyways...), alternator, distributor seal, I took notes, wrote thing down and had it all back together except for the alternator. This is where the learning starts....

Step 1 - put in the bracket and got the alternator positioned and the bottom bolt through put the nut on loose. Hmm.. something is missing......
2. took off nut and put on dipstick support bracket, put all nuts and washers on and started to tighten...then I said to myself wait a second.....the alternator adjusting arm, I need that too....##@$#@ 3. Take nuts off again and remove dipstick bracket, install arm, bracket and snug the nuts. Install the adjusting screw and start to tension the belt, hmmmm.....if the belt is inside the brackets you can not get it onto the pulleys.......$##*&#&&@( 4. Take off all brackets, put belt on the outside of all this, then reinstall the nuts, and thankfully once I got a boost set up she started right up and idled perfectly.

Each time I took the nuts off I could feel list members chuckling to themselves. If you ever need help putting an alternator back on and you in Ottawa I am good to go!

Hope to see many of you at Bus Fusion: www.busfusion.com

Cheers, Jeff Rogers