Rebuild Alternator, Wondering if anyone else has just rebuilt their own Options

[sandusky1977]

Oh what a morning, off to work for my 65 mile commute in my happy little red gen 6 and about 20 minutes in to my journey the battery light flickers on....

From there it started to get interesting, it was obvious that I hadn't broken a belt, so the alternator is turning but the lights are dimming, the stereo just shut off and the turn signals are making the speedometer and tach bounce to zero,... well only 40 miles to go....

So I continued on, and amazingly enough even though touching the breaks was killing the fuel pump, I somehow made it to my parking spot at work.

So now I sit at my desk contemplating a rebuilt alternator, or just buying the parts and rebuilding it myself, anyone else rebuilt a toyo alt? Seems like rock auto, or villagetoyotaparts.com both have the parts needed to do a rebuild.

Rob

[richee3]

I'm had my OEM alt rebuilt. It worked great for over three years until I swapped engines. I don't know what's involved in rebuilding an alternator but if you can DIY, you should absolutely do that rather than getting a cheap Chinese alt that has been rebuilt as well.