Thanks for the replies. FWIW, I am finished with the front valve cover, and I put in alum. coolant elbows about a year ago--but will have to look up the alt. removal procedure again--I don't remember it being bad.

For backyard tinkerers like me, we also need to verify--I have come to expect Haynes to publish bad info, but still surprised when I get bad info from alldatadiy--which says remove drive belt tensioner but has nothing about the generator, but from looking at it I bet the generator has to come off like Russ said.

Thank again!