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Originally Posted by bpu699
Replacing bearings is easy, and you can buy much better quality than a local rebuilder will use...
But where can you buy a commutator? Someone posted a source but can find it. Would be easy to press a new one on...
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Pretty sure Wagner Alternators has this part, and I found it on a couple other sites. The problem was that they do not sell to retail customers -- ran against this obstacle with a few places that stock alternator parts.
The alt in my '86 is a Valeo design, apparently, so you can find parts by looking under that alternator type. Pretty much everything you'd need is available -- commutator, stator coil, rectifiers. Just not retail.
Kind of a bummer, since the parts themselves weren't particularly expensive. I suppose you could try to buy the part from an alternator shop.