Engine painting while in the car?

Oldmanmopar said
No, I had a chrome alternator here I used the housing from . It came with this motor buy. I had to change the pulley and convert the car to electronic regulator.

The alternator comes apart easy. You need a special pulley puller and a press. Pull the pulley while together and press it back on while its apart so you can push on the shaft and not the housing. The brushes come out with one screw each. I usually take the alternator apart and clean the housing in the sonic cleaner but this time I had a housing here I wasn't using for anything at the time. If it would have been and early style housing I would have kept it for my car.

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I have no clue what kind of alternator I have but it's just old and not as shiny. Since I'm painting the bay, engine and pulleys I figured if i could clean it up that would be nice. I dont have any special alternator pullers though so i might have to either figure something out or clean it best i can without pulling it apart.

Sorry about the pictures I'm not home and just cropped some of my other pictures that had my alternator in it. My AC unit is going to kill the look of the engine bay for sure...