[V8] Alternator rebuild kits

[Dave Saad]

I doubt you will find a kit. Find a shop that rebuilds alternators  
(often they do a lot of big truck kind of work) and bring them your  
bearings.  They will match them up by either part number or size.
You may want to pull off the grease seals from your old bearings and  
count the balls inside.  Sometimes cheaper bearings have fewer balls.
The regulator should be available from any parts house.

On reassembly, I take some steel wool and polish up the slip rings  
too.  A real rebuilder would actually turn them down in a lathe, but I  
think that needlessly removes copper.  The deciding factor is what  
kind of shape they are in in the first place.

Dave

On Feb 11, 2010, at 5:49 PM, NIck Miller wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> It's official after the bearing noise as well as the battery symbol  
> now
> showing up, that my alternator is on its way out the door.  So, yet  
> another
> ancillary belt driven thingy is going to come off for a rebuild.  The
> hydraulics are disturbingly quiet and dry at this moment, hopefully  
> the
> alternator job results in the same..
>
> So, I can't find any at the typical parts sources which makes  
> sense.  I'm
> curious if anyone knows of a good place to get rebuild kits for these
> things, or am I going to be looking for the parts at a local place?   
> I would
> appreciate anyone who does have a local source to maybe get me the  
> parts and
> send them so i don't have to take the unit off the car and go around
> matching brushes/bearings... But we do have a US bearings and Drives  
> place
> here that has a good selection of random stuff.
>
> Thanks as always,
> Nick
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