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Just got back from a night run to check the alt with full load (Headlights, wipers, blower, A/C) and it seems to be fine. No dimming and the dreadful idle flicker is history.
The rebuilt unit was also a Bosch but had a definate problem with the guts. New brushes and a new diode didn;t help at all. VR is Ok so it may have been a bad armature winding job (had a Crown tag on the outside but a chinese inspection tag inside when I did sone surgery this afternoon).
The pivot bolt was frozen solid. It took a hell of a lot of PB and a BFH to free it and the bore was all pitted and chewed up looking. Bolt was not a plated one.
The replacement is rhodium plated and now coated with so much anti sieze my fingers still look like I am a secret admirer of the Silver Surfer.
I figure I'd drop it off at a rebuild shop I know in Mt. Vernon NY and see what a job they do on it. They do all the steel shot blasting on my firms Concrete Air Meters and having hung around their shop they do a damn good jopb for $60.
As for the reman alt that was in place...It was sourced from AutoZone and I'm not into taking another "Shanghai Surprise" as an example of their lifetime warranty.(Its a matter of $$ spent on mfg. I know that rebuild firms cut corners to save sheckels but I'm tired of bad work and mismatched brake caliper halves and the like!).
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