Daniel J. Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Bill Putney wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>The load test results say nothing about the condition of the bearings.
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>>But...if the load test is correct, then there's no reason to assume it's
>>the bearings.
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> Sure there is: The tech said the alternator is going bad.

No - the OP said: "The shop said that I also had a bad alternator"
(check the original post) as in "already bad". That doesn't imply bad
bearings any more than bad electrical output. Not quite the same as the
shop saying it was "going bad".

Bill Putney
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