It may be worth asking if someone has a broken alternator. It isn't hard to swap the front housing over. If it is one of the new ones on the market the regulator is internal, the original Volvo ones are external.
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Originally Posted by woodman
Here's a picture of the alternator I've just removed. I'd noticed the thing was wobbling and rattling a bit, but when I looked at from underneath I noticed the lug was cracked. And why? Because whoever fitted it didn't have a long enough bolt, so they hacksawed half the lug off to get it on and weakened the casting. As it's been wobbling it's also stripped half the thread. AND it appears they haven't wired it through a charge regulator, so ever since I've had it I've been boiling the battery every day. Consequence: I have a perfectly functioning alternator that's going for scrap, I need a new one at £130 and I'll probably need a new battery very soon too.
I imagine this was the same cowboy who used heat and (I assume) a basic puller to get a brake drum off, relined the shoes and then put the same oval drum back on, then gave it an MOT (probably on the logic that it was an old car that did 50 miles a year so it didn't matter). That cost me money too.
Rant over.
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