i wonder.... how do you do an alignement without all the high tech stuff ?

My kids shared a Ford that the steering column would pull out like that, and it also had no MIL on startup. Must be a Ford feature.

Very cool of Ford to make it so you have to uninstall the drive shaft to get to the alternator.

Wow ! all that work for an "alternator"

It might have been easier to drop the exhaust that was directly under the alternator.

Just read the directions Ray, follow the pictures!

Whew! That’s quite a job and diagnostic trip.

first time i see a speedometer with such a "low" max speed.

Ford

Now I didn't forward think of this idea??

Everything looks like that brown coating you get if you put in that snake oil Lucas Oil.

I could change my alternator on my 88 bronco in about 10 minutes. Starter in about 20, only because it took me that long to get down and back up.

cured me from ever buying an escape. pure ignorant placement of nader !

Ray,Ray, Ray....as a certified ForChevAmChrysWagen Master Mechanic, you know the gender-confused protesters can reassemble it for you....

Do the engineers say how can we make it impossible to do anything on this car?

While the placement of the alternator in these sucks, and do feel for you Ray, I think a lot of these comments are missing the point. Given the space constraints of a transversely mounted V6 engine in a little compact SUV, I don't think the engineers had any choice without increasing the overall size of vehicle. And it would be idiotic for them to do that, just to save maybe an hour or two of extra labor replacing a part 20 years down the road.

That is some design the engineer should be made to remove them

Clamp the handle of an oil filter wrench in the vice to hold the oil filter . Place the indicator on the front of the engine . Angle of indicator stem is inaccurate . A cracked flex plate may make noise under a load .

All that for a nator…wowsers. Could have been worse…6” bolts with only 4” of space 😂

Dunno if you will read this but way back in the day when I truned wrenches I used a 6 foot long rock bar to pry the lower control arms loose. It never failed. Ive seen that same set up in a Mercury cougar v6. It was a nightmare to remove.

What a pain in the butt to get that out! How much time did it take to do the job?

*another neutral drop on the green ratchet* No wonder he had to have that thing rebuilt.

In the country where this was manufactured this was a Cadillac. Poor folks got poor ways. When I was 15 (long ago) I well ,this beats walking.

On the battery analyzer, it shows the internal resistance as 4.59mΩ which is milliohms, not megohms. Lower case (m) is for milli. Upper case (M) would be mega.

Se escapó los 4 voltaje del alternador

Every ford I have ever had always makes a knocking noise from time to time.

as RAY AGES these will be passed on.

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That ball joint boot is split, letting dirt in.

Dude... just get a Dewalt leaf blower. That thing is making more of a mess than it's cleaning up.

"not sure where to start" lol I see youre fishing Ray.

I agree with claw hetter.

give them haters the old Steve Martin........WELL EXCUSE ME!!!!!

What a crazy place to put an alternator that has got to be the only time I've seen a driveshaft removed to get to the alternator.

This is why I dont buy cars from Ikea

I don’t call them trolls. I call them January, 6 insurrection trolls.

The other half of the pistons are still out of the car

Maybe you should get a degree and go to Detroit you might learn why things are designed that way

The knee bone's connected to the....leg bone.....

Ray are you noticing the sound issues

Did you ever put the splash shield on the alternator?

Just ran out and checked my 2020 Escape with 2.0L ecoboost. All serviceable from the front. Looks like need to drain the radiator fluid to get the main hose into the block out of the way. No insane like this one, but not as easy as most other cars I have owned.

I despise active fuel management.

Should have changed that crankshaft seal.

Ah sure alternator didn't need it's heat shield anyways.

Yeah, those EverStart batteries don't last. I have to replace the one in my boat after only fifteen years.

It prob looked like you were making sweet love to the engine there.... LOL!

This is what happens when a ford engineers wife cheats on him with a mechanic. 🧑‍🔧 😅

The internal resistance of a somewhat functioning battery is xy milli Ohm (m-Omega), not xy Mega Ohm (M-Omega). Not all testers spell it out correctly.

This was an engineer saying, “I wonder just how impossible I can make it to change a normal wear item”.