Originally Posted By: Jim Spahr
I thought the total alternator rebuild would be the bearings, the brushes, the regulator, and the rectifier. It seeems you are focusing on the bearings with only a passing mention of the brushes or the regulator. No one has even mentioned the rectifier.
I pulled a rectifier trio off a wrecked car like mine, but it had a BRAND NEW Denso reman, so I seized the opportunity and smuggled the rectifier and voltage regulator. I bought the aftermarket WAI ones, the rectifier failed a Kragen bench test since it had 8 diodes, 2 more than OEM.