re: Changing an alternator out on a truck.

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More like 15 minutes with a power ratchet, it's top dead center with nothing but the intake tube to move out of the way.

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Maybe they changed it later in the run but the 3rd gen with a V6 I helped a friend with a couple of years ago had the alternator at 5 o'clock facing the front of the truck. You didn't HAVE to remove the fender liner and you didn't HAVE to have a lift but it would have been a real PITA without them. Add to that the belt tensioner on his was at about 7 o'clock and would also be a PITA without a lift.

As long as no bracket bolts are seized and no connectors crumble alternators are a fairly easy job, maybe 2 out of 10. The difficulty lies in how hard it is to access which is why I would call the one we did a 3.5, higher without a lift.