The short story is that I had to pull my alternator last Feb because of flickering dash lights. Bad diode. I had the guy R&R everything including the bearings. I did the job without pulling the plenum.
Fast forward to yesterday when after a run into town, the damn thing began to squeal. So I spent this morning pulling it out again. The alternator is at the shop right now and supposed to be back to me by tonight with a second set of new bearings.
The shop mechanic said that he can't get any bearings for alt except overseas. If true, this foreign crap is just that. The upside, if any, is that I'm getting pretty good at pulling the alt without removing the plenum. I'ts still a b*tch though.
