On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Bill Putney wrote:

> > ask him to be more specific about what's gone bad in the alternator.
> > I'm betting he gave the alternator a spin when he removed the belt to
> > replace the water pump, and felt a rough bearing.

> Smitty posted a little earlier that both old and new alternators load
> tested at 11V - so it sounds like something else is going on external to
> the alternator.

1) The load test results say nothing about the condition of the bearings.
2) It's entirely possible the load test was not done correctly.

> The dust being thrown from the serpentine belt downstream of the alt.
> pulley piled into a handy little crevice on top of the engine. When I
> opened the hood, the pile of rubber dust was glowing red, just like
> embers in a fireplace. Really weird and amazing.

Fun and amazing after the fact...scary and damned inconvenient at the
time!