One other thing to look at is where the bearings sits in the alt. body casting. I have seen "looseness" there (on the distal/inboard/furthest away from fan bearing). I replaced bearing in my 90A alternator years ago, was readily available at local industrial supply house. Alistair '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94 http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/ On 23-Mar-06, at 4:04 AM, -------------------- wrote: AAAAALLLLLLLL bearing have play unless they are preloaded. . The ALT. bearings are bad if you can feel any. Jeff Oxroad wrote: > How much play is acceptable in the Alternator bearing? I'm guessing the > answer is none. > > But I don't want to replace the Alt. prematurely as it's functioning > fine. I > just had the fan belt off and found the play is slight, but > noticeable. It > is not enough to interfere with the functioning of the alternator > cooling > fan--because then even I could figure out it's time to replace. > > Thanks, > Jeff > 83.5 Westy > LA,CA > > > > |
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