I was wondering if any one has cleaned up and painted a stock alt housing? It comes mostly apart, but the main guts are still stuck in the two halves. I'll be bead blasting alot of brackets and want to give the alt a make over. I'm just wondering if any one has taken one apart for this purpose. It almost seems like I could paint over the guts, they seem already painted, unless it's something special.
tearing apart alternator
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·To the best of my knowledge they do or at least every one of them I've seen has them. :huh:
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why do you have two, because of all your audio and electical stuff?I bought two replacement alts for a 2003 durango 5.9. That year they had a 160amp option which blows our little 130 amp out of the water- Has the same connections also. New from oriellys was only $140ish. I took these apart- I had to desolder the coil terminals but once they were apart I had them polished and clear powder coated and I painted the middle to match my orange powder coat. I like how they turned out. Here are some pics
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is that just a normal bracket with a second alt instead of AC?
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yeah- I bought two spare brackets to cut/chop/and weld so I could add the second alt. Got rid of the heat and A/C for more power
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how does no heat save power?
More electrical power. No blower motor to use power.
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It saves power by not having the blower but besides that I was able to more power by adding a second alt where the A/C compressor used to be.
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