Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari rebuilt alternators

[Rui Gigante (rui.gigante]

I had my 328 alternator rebuilt a couple of months ago "while I was there".
It needed new bearings and a good cleaning. I sure hope it lasts longer than
that !

Rui


On 6/5/07, Rick Lindsay <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> And Dave, I replaced the alternator once before you
> bought the car!
>
> rick
>
> --- Dave Craig <dave.craig [at] sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > I had my alternator rebuilt (83 Mondial QV) three
> > times before it took.  The
> > first two times it failed within 2K miles.  Then we
> > took a more scientific
> > look at the failures and application and the local
> > shop decided to put in
> > "high speed" aviation bearings on the third rebuild
> > and that was 3 or 4
> > years ago and all is still well.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Handa [mailto:dave [at] davehanda.com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 7:45 PM
> > To: Dave Craig
> > Cc: 'The FerrariList'
> > Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Ferrari rebuilt alternators
> >
> > The Delco is under powered for the application.
> > Have the rebuild shop up it
> > to around 140 amp and you will be fine.  Heard of a
> > couple guys doing this
> > on f-chat and it works.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cdatte [at] spawar.navy.mil
> > [mailto:cdatte [at] spawar.navy.mil]
> > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 5:44 PM
> > To: dave [at] davehanda.com
> > Cc: The FerrariList
> > Subject: [Ferrari] Ferrari rebuilt alternators
> >
> > I have an 89 Mondial and it looks like the rebuilt
> > alternator went.
> > Talked to a couple of shops and there seems to be a
> > consensus that
> > rebuilt alternators fail more often than not but I
> > couldn't get any whys.
> > I pulled it and it has a delco that was rebuilt
> > about a year ago.
> > Any Ideas on this would be appreciated
> >
> >
> >