Personally,I've never had to replace an alternator. Just the regulators. And even then, I found a source for replacement brushes and have been using the same regulator for almost 13 years now until it finally actually died electronically last year.
I salvaged the brushes before I threw it out.
I currently have 5 used alternators in my stockpile.
Still, I would rather refresh than replace.
Are these great cars or what?
Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works"
- Michael Hartung
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do." - Joseph Stalin
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On Fri, 1/11/19, Alan Boucher alsthe1@gmail.com [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Alternator Service
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, January 11, 2019, 12:08 PM
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over the years I've done a few dozen, its
beginning to become tiresome.
On Fri, Jan
11, 2019 at 1:25 PM vwnate1@yahoo.com
[diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:
Actually once you've done it a couple times
it's really very simply and fast if always fiddly and
dirty .
My
brother struggled for hours on his '81 W126, I came by
and had the job done in minuted, using only hand tools
.
-Nate
Al wrote :
the alternator isn't a lot of fun
either
--
Al
Boucher
