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placid warrior

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Posted: April 17, 2005 at 12:06 PM / IP Logged

In another forum some guy says that he 'almost forgot' to mention that usually a rewound alternator needs a larger housing and different brackets...actuall heres the quote.

Many re-wound alts actaully do need new brackets because they are still getting bigger! It just depends on how big you go. (I actually forgot all about this) you may even have to make a entire housing for the frickin thing. Truthfully, it would just be a lot more hassle and less reliable to re-wind the alt. And after doing all that work, I'm not sure how much of a diff. in $ u'd actually be saving!?! Like i said tho, I've only heard bad things about re-wound alts, never witnessed...but i have seen re-wound alts needing new brackets and new housing.

Ive not heard of this...how bout u guys. Any words of wisdom i can pass on?

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jeffchilcott

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Posted: April 17, 2005 at 12:42 PM / IP Logged

we have a local guy who will re wind alt's for a very good price. the only catch he will not do import alternators, the problem is the case is way to small to work with. a larger v 8 case style alternator has room to build them up. there are companays that build alternators that have larger cases but are ready to bolt into the factory locatation, dommonick iraggi is one. ohio generators is another. these are the best of the best, there are some others but many are not bolt on applications

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Posted: April 17, 2005 at 5:55 PM / IP Logged

Good point. I look for the ones that bolt to factory locations. Some are misleading and are almost impossible to bolt up if you have to put on new brackets, etc.

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placid warrior

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Posted: April 17, 2005 at 11:51 PM / IP Logged

allright thanks for the note, I took a look at an import alt while i was at the junk yard and saw what u guys were talking about...wow. no room in those things, lol.

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