Originally Posted by CaptArt

Just tried to run an alternator test but it immediately smelled like something burning and smoke started pouring out of the alternator, so I shut it down. So, obviously I have a bad alternator. Now trying to remove it, I got the bolts out, but it will not pass around the mount wings that the bolts go into, no matter how I turn it it doesn't seem to have enough room to come out of the hole its in without removing something else. Anyone else run into this problem?