You can tape them off and tuck them away. One wirewas for the idiot light and the other wire was a trigger wire to excite the old alternator.
The alternator should be on the front of the motor with a belt on the pulley and wires connected to the back of it that can be removed.
The wiring harness from a typical alternator has three wires. One is for grounding, one is from the battery, and the other is from the voltage regulator. In a GM alternator however, there may be two wires or only one wire. It depends on whether you have an external voltage regulator or not, and if the alternator simply grounds itself to the bracket it's attached to. The best way to find out is to trace the wires to their sources.
The voltage regulator is inside the alternator.
disconnect battery, remove the serp belt, unbolt the alt, and take off the wires then put the new one in the way the old came off
Remove the alternator. The rest will then be obvious.
Disconnect the battery.Remove the serpentine belt.Take off the wires on the back of the alternator.Unbolt the alternator from the engine bracket.
I have a 1990 Lumina Euro, 3.1 and there are 2 ways to change the plugs and wires. The first is what some mechanics do, by rotating the engine forward and blocking it that way while they change the plugs, which is the way they changed mine the other day. The other way, is the way I change them, which is to remove the alternator and then you can get to the back plugs fairly easily without having to go through the hassle of rotating the engine forward. I prefer this way myself and I usually chane my own plugs, but I had to have some other work done on mine so I let them change the plugs and wires since I need it worked on while I was working. The front plugs and wires are easy to get to. Use sparkplug pliers to get the wires off the plugs. Hope this helps.
I believe the '92 Metro has three wires (two in one connector, one in the other) to the alternator.
how do you take the wires from the alternator on a 1997 Toyota Tercel
One at a time.
unhook the battery, remove the cerpintine belt, remove the wires, remove the bad alternator, put on the new alternator, replace the wires starting w/ the negative one, replace the cerpintine belt, tighten the belt.
change only one wires at a time,matching each to length.