Date:         Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:58:43 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: alternator alternate
Comments: To: acg11awg@MINDNET.ORG
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You can just go to a local rebuilder and buy a 90 amp alternator.
I'd shy away from people selling bulk rebuilt like Pep Boys, Chief Auto
and you know your local others.
I've been running my 65 amp alternator for seven years and I just don't
see much point in having amps that you never need. With everything on the
van turned on, headlights, driving lights, radio, halogen sink light,
blower motor on oil the cooler, blower motor on the heater it never drops
below 12v and normally runs at 14 / 15 volts.

Stan Wilder
83 Westfalia Air Cooled

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:18:47 -0500 Amy and Andrew <acg11awg@MINDNET.ORG>
writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim & Kim Dayton" <5days@PRODIGY.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 12:47 PM
> Subject: alternator alternate
>
>
> I am wanting to put a higher amperage alternator in this 82 vanagon.
>  First,
> can it be done and will a Golf/Jetta alternator work.  They are
> 90amp.
>
> tim
>
>
> Tim,
> I put an alternator in a '85 Golf from a '84 Westy, it fit just
> fine, the
> only difference was the battery connector, but that was easy to get
> around.
> The Golf had a 60 amp and the Van's is a 90 amp. Now I have a 90 amp
> van
> alternator on my I4 conversion,fits and works fine.
>
> Andrew
> 1984 Westy "Speed Bump"
> 1996 VW Jetta Trek  "Little Beep" (the wife's car)
>
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