So a month or three ago my serp belt was starting to squeal, riding up on the front lip of the fan pulley. I spaced the power steering pump back slightly to make it stop.
Now power steering pump is noisy, so I probably screwed it up with that slight side load (or it was just failing anyway, who knows)
I pulled off the 200 amp generator to finally go resolve the underlying issue, which is the exhaust stud that holds the back of the generator in place was snapped off.
Of course things snowball. To get the snapped bolt out I had to remove the exhaust manifold.
When removing the exhaust manifold I found the oil cooler lines from the block were right up against the manifold, melting the protective wrap and the outer layer of the hoses.
Then add to that I had to remove the oil filter, finding that the oil leak from the adapter for the filter was slightly worse than I thought, and will probably need new o-rings to stop the leak.
Oh, and when I was removing the shims I put behind the power steering pump to space it back, I found the lower bolt holding the generator/PS pump bracket in place had backed out by 1/8", so that bracket ws only being held in place by the upper two bolts that were close together. It's my fault for not looking closer at the diagrams in the parts manual to see where the bolts were and how many when I started trying to fix this issue. I have no idea yet if this will solve the belt squealing issue, but I expect that there will be less movement in the generator/PS pump with all bolts tightened and the rear brace bolted to the block, so I'm hopeful that the belt squeal might be solved as well.
Currently waiting on the exhaust stud, oil filter adapter o-rings, and exhaust gasket. Fortunately I got the remains of the exhaust stud out without much difficulty once the manifold was removed. Now just to change the direction of the oil lines a little bit to keep them further away from the manifold, and maybe do a wrap on the manifold while it's out and easy to do.
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