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Originally Posted by Mike Noc
Hopefully you should get a fair few miles yet from the slip rings David.
My alternator had covered around 340k miles and although the brushes had worn away and there was wear on the slip rings they still had some way to go.
As for the rotor bearings they felt as good as new.
Will report back on how easy the slip ring change is when I get the time to do it.
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On the website of one component supplier is a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f56-26I6idc
Not sure if our alternators are the same as this as I didn't delve this deep in to mine, but looks easy enough on a bench.
So unless the field coils go, it seems these alternators have virtually all the parts available for doing the home refurb. Bearings as well. Like yours, my bearings are still smooth at 167,000. A mere novice really.
I might pick up a cheap second hand one from a scrappy and a set of parts to refurb it. Then it strengthens the chance that because I'm prepared, I won't ever need it.