 Hello boys and girls, we got a repair video today, and it's a 2010 Maserati 4-Porta and today I'm going to remove the alternator and to do that I need to remove the intake manifold. Now the problem this car is having is the alternator is charging at about 12 volts which is not enough should be about thirteen point eight point nine somewhere along those lines it's also got a Christmas tree going on on the inside weird stuff going on the glovebox opens on its own and the battery terminals are getting hot so to me that sounds like an alternator issue charging system issue and it also drains the battery pretty quickly when the car is parked. There's the alternator right there and you can see this guy is in the way and it's a pretty big intake and it goes back all the way back to the firewall so I need to remove the wipers these covers over here I'm hoping the fuel rails will come out with the intake manifold and yeah we'll see how it goes never done this job before what I'm gonna do this time I won't be recording what I'm doing because I am in a hurry I need to kind of fly through this I'm gonna show you my progress as I go and tell you what I removed and how so next stop something will be removed all right update so after removing this big cover up top this is what's next the wipers first now there's almost always an issue once you remove these 17 millimeter nuts these wipers will not come out easily and if that's your case what you want to do is put back the nut so it's almost flush with the stud and grab a small hammer and keep hitting it with one hand and then with the other try lifting the wiper up this way you're kind of you're hammering down on the stud remember to put the nut on do not hammer on the stud you're gonna break the mess up the threads so do that on both ends and then you'll see them pop up once the wipers are off then you have a little allen key allen bolt right here pretty self-explanatory right there only on the driver's side wiper then it's this plastic right here you got a bunch of you got a Phillips an allen and a torques torque is 25 allen is 4 mil remember to disconnect the washer fluid hose and then you're gonna want to watch because this will get caught on the wiper stud and it actually went out that way now this plastic and probably the wiper motor all right update as you can see the wiper motor is off the there's a bunch of 8 mil nuts and a few bolts right along inside this area it's kind of obvious there's two or one on each side right here also there you want to make this loose because it's gonna be easier for you to remove this harness which I'll show in a second where it unscrews and then the the motor itself it's just three 10 mil two 10 mil bolts one 10 mil nut that becomes loose as well but it's not going to be easy to remove that's why when I remove this plastic or make it loose and this connector is right there right over here that's pretty self-explanatory the tab you just lift that up don't break this this is kind of fragile and this should just come off somehow alright removing this thing is not easy break close the fuse box here one 10 mil here one 10 mil here do that first pull it away and then you can somehow remove this all right update now I mean you gotta use you know your common sense for these clips and stuff just remove these lines avoid removing hoses and stuff I don't know what's going on in the back there I'm gonna find out it seems like there's a line maybe going into the intake yeah this one here this guy yeah yeah it is going back into the to the back of the intake I but I don't know how to take it off because I can't see it I don't know if you can see it or not some kind of a maybe maybe it's a hose clamp not sure anyways I'm gonna leave that I'm actually gonna now and start remove the allen bolts that hold the intake in so I got these all these lines off its clips and stuff the PCV stuff these fuel lines I believe there could be return lines fuel return lines there was there was almost no fuel pressure but what I did at first and you want to probably do that to remove this cap you're gonna see a valve inside right there put a rag over it and with a small screwdriver press that in release any pressure that may be in the fuel lines and do this on both sides there is the same kind of a cap on the other side these are 17s right here both sides so now it's gonna swing this over don't worry about fuel it will it will evaporate so I'm gonna kind of probably just tie it up so it's out of my way like I did this line here now this goes into the intake here so this bungee holds away this same thing clips and stuff here split pretty self-explanatory I'm gonna have to remove this too one of these clamps probably probably this one here down the way to remove these and same clamps go here and here is you stick a flat screwdriver inside and just kind of wiggle it and this will open up you can actually reuse these clamps so that's what I did on these these guys here what you do now when you install them you put it on you you know hook them on and then you squeeze it squeeze this two with some kind of pliers long nose pliers or cutters cutters work nice but you know without cutting the actual clamp they don't need much to go back on so your choice here you can remove it here or here I chose this because it's the whole piece is rubber so it kind of pulled up on me I did have to unhook these hooks here so this goes back a little bit then you want to unplug the throttle body so that's ready to go and like I said before this should come up with the fuel rails and injectors because these are port injectors so it's all kind of you know all together not sure what's underneath and like I said not sure what's in the back how is that gonna hold me up so next step is to oh yeah fuel injectors these guys here you want a wooden flat screwdriver push this up if for some reason this pops up for you put it back in that's how they bought they will go back in now the only thing I had trouble with is this clamp right here that holds this harness here it was all the way to the right so I just loosened up this ellen bolt right there and moved it back so I had access to the spring on the fuel injector all right mission accomplished you got fuel coming out now the reason why the intake is like this just want to show you this harness is attached underneath the intake right here so not sure this goes somewhere along there if I'm able to remove this line here yes I am okay maybe it does twist I may need two hands yep that was fairly easy so just a vacuum line put it aside and this line here the one that's attached in the back of the intake that's another vacuum line and where's the end of it this guy here just remove this from the brake booster right here pry it out with a screwdriver lightly be careful not to break it because it's plastic and you can remove it with the line here's the intake more fuel you got spillage that's fine this is a special rag right here it will soak it all up that's more than I thought all right now these are pretty hard I'm not sure if I can reuse these I don't know once I'm done with the alternator I'm gonna inspect those gaskets and this is what it looks like and there's the alternator now I can look at the intake runners see what that looks like I can see the valves they're actually pretty clean there are intake valves after all you know thanks to port injection your intake valves will always most of the time remain clean all right now before you are what I do before you take anything really off you know that's gonna expose the I guess inside of your engine you want to blow compressed air around it so anything falls in well there won't be much to fall in what I'm gonna do I did that I'm gonna I actually kept vacuuming also around that area where the wipers where because this car has been sitting under a tree for quite some time now I'm still gonna vacuum all this inside inside each runner again just to make sure there's no debris inside at all forgot to mention to remove this hose because it's so hard I don't know if that used to be that way I had to remove these two bolts to remove this whole thing then the hose came out then I just flipped it over or twisted it and put it back in so no debris falls in there okay obviously I already cleaned these up let's see looking nice and shiny I did wipe the runners on the inside a little bit you want to cover these up again avoid anything falling inside then the tensioner is not sure if you're gonna see that right where the right in the middle the pulley that's right in the middle right there where the wrench ends okay so this is gonna go this way pull it take the belt off I left the wrench on it holding the belt I'm not replacing the belt I'm holding the belt with a bungee over here it's actually probably easier to replace the belt if you are from underneath because this is in the way right here 13 mil right here back of the alternator this nut here this plastic and then the plug and now I'm gonna proceed and remove this troublemaker right here these two allen bolts let's see what size those are eights all right still not out what I had to do this this is a coolant this is an oil cooler right here and now this is a coolant line going to the oil cooler so if you're gonna remove this line you're gonna spill coolant so what I did was this it's got a kind of a bracket over here that holds it remove that allen bolt from here this will give you a tiny bit more room you'll be able to move this coolant line away then you start prying from the left side first use a small pry bar or a screwdriver pry this up right is out clear the coolant line and try and jiggle this out this is a tight fit especially on my right side here driver side you see still gotta well now it's easy there we go now it's out you hear that this it is kind of noisy but there's also some kind of a clicking noise maybe I mean I'm not gonna waste time and take this apart but maybe someday we'll see all right now is also a good time to inspect the pulleys and everything else the bell the belt is needs to be replaced but I'm just not doing it now alternator bolts are different length this one is the passenger side this is the driver side all right I do I was provided with a used alternator so I'm gonna go ahead and install that I'm gonna inspect the these rubber seals on the intake see if I can reuse them or not probably not this thing has over a hundred thousand miles hundred and ten something like that yeah this was maybe sixty thousand now probably reuse it or not ten years old but this rubber seems you know on the hard side look at this that's dirty I may also give this a clean you can see the more fuel you can see the injectors maybe I shouldn't mess with that I don't want any debris any dirt falling onto the injectors and you don't want to spray anything things like brake cleaner on the injectors now is a good time to clean out the throttle body I did actually clean this a while ago I'm gonna give it another clean and now it's gonna be easier since it's out all right so I'm gonna start putting it all back together and if any if anything comes up I'll let you know the Maserati is back together still have a few lights low on fuel air pressure tire sensor this guy is on because the rear parking brakes are not actually this guy the rear parking brakes are just where the shoes are gone you know there's got to be a sensor on it there's sensors everywhere and this guy is on because the guy before me the guy that put the brake pads upside down or reverse there is a video on it when I first got this thing the title of that video is how how not to do brakes on the Maserati yes somebody on the front left and rear left put the inner brake pads the other way around and the sensor is cut the one that goes on the actual brake pad and that's why this light is on but no more check engine no more traction control probably three others a battery was was a battery was on check engine light was on and something else traction control or something I don't know whatever doesn't matter everything was lit up right now it's been running for probably 40 minutes or so did maybe three miles and it's been sitting idling I'm gonna shut this thing off look this open on its own and I can't close it now if I start it all right starts right up so now I can close it it will stay closed I can open it with that but yeah that's weird and before this was hot I couldn't even touch it actually well if I waited a little longer I will probably burn myself when I you know touched it the first time I've noticed but this time it's cold so that's that's fixed all I got left is those big plastic covers that's it not a difficult job just a bit time-consuming a lot of fun putting getting this plastic piece out and putting it back in everything else is kind of self-explanatory don't forget to clean the throttle body since that's out all right guys I hope this video helped you out hit the like button subscribe subscribe and I'll see you soon