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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera View Post
If you have the time, just have your current alternator rebuilt by a local repair shop. Take it off, drop it at the shop, and ask for a non Chinese bearings, and a rebuild. It will be cheaper than a "refurbished" unit from the loacal parts store, and likely a better unit, not built in some factory where price and speed of the rebuild is the only things they care about.
Okay - good idea. There used to be a good rebuilding place near here. I'll see if I can find another one. When I got my Porsche alt. rebuilt the guy installed the good bearings and other parts, but he was only doing Porsche alts. at the time.
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