alternators are kinda the one thing you dont wanna get oil on though..... only thing worse is a starter...though I did neglect to mention that, while installing the alternator (you have to pull it out to get the timing cover off), I dropped the entire thing in the waste oil tub under the car.
I'm reasonably sure it will still work, as it's worked for at least 5 years underneath a steady drip of power steering fluid.
Though if I ever find the Nissan engineer that carried that particular arrangement (power steering pump over the alternator) through from 1984 (with the introduction of the turbo VG) all the way to the present day with the VQ, I'm going to jelly my cock down his/her/its throat.
Meh. If it was going to get hurt by oil, it would have been done in long ago by the power steering oil leak.alternators are kinda the one thing you dont wanna get oil on though..... only thing worse is a starter
Bought one of those vacuum fluid extractor things, and just did the oil in the Q5 with it.
Holy fuck why didn't I buy one of these things ages ago. Makes oil changes clean, quick and stupid easy.
Here's mine:Link?
yarpHere's mine:
7.3 Litre Manual Fluid Extractor | Princess Auto
7.3 Litre Manual Fluid Extractorwww.princessauto.com
I'm gonna assume that Harbor Freight sells the exact same thing.