Reddit mentions: The best automotive replacement alternators

The fit can be a bit of an issue, but having the wrong number of pins is a lot more concerning. I went here for the 1996 3.2 V6 in the LS trim with an automatic trans which gives the part number 2902766200. A quick google search of that part number and "Isuzu" shows an Amazon listing for $110 which claims to fit that car as well as some Hondas. Pretty common for a company like Isuzu to buy parts from another manufacturer. It's hard to tell, but that listing has one pic that shows four "blades" for the plug in a configuration kind of like _||_ in case that looks like yours. If you have a different model then make sure that yours matches the same part, but there is a good chance it does. If you find that the pulleys are different you can probably get a loaner gear puller from any auto parts store and scavenge your old one. If you aren't 100% sure about something it may be worth it to buy local (~$140) for ease of returns and warranty. Note that they'll charge you an extra $50 "core" charge until you give them the old and busted one.

Here's Amazon for $140 with free shipping.

This one is new; the one /u/rhubes linked is used, but either should do you well.

I also went ahead and found you the Youtube video to replace your alternator for your specific car. Watch and watch again, and you'll be able to do it yourself!

OK, This is an alternator that op was talking about.

https://www.amazon.com/DB-Electrical-ADR0186-Alternator-Rendezvous/dp/B007Y86OUQ/ref=asc_df_B007Y86OUQ/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312442771380&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13236198802898546900&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=21164&hvtargid=aud-801381245258:pla-572399110518&psc=1

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Less than $100 and super easy to replace. You don't need to be car savvy to do this repair. If you don't feel comfortable doing this, should be $300 for a mechanic to do it. I don't think that this is your problem though. If your alternator was bad, you would be having other electrical issues. Radio dropping out, battery dying ..

If it's a fuel injector, should be around the same price for a mechanic to replace. This is more likely your issue.

Why not look up pictures of the alternator on the internet and compare to the one one your car?

Whatever, I already did it in 4 seconds. Here's the one for the V6, and here's the one for the 4cyl. They're not ever a little bit the same from the outside. Bolt holes don't line up. Your shop would have to do some pretty wacky stuff to get one to fit on the wrong engine.

In any case either would work if you could get it mounted as they're both 110 amps, 12 volts and internally regulated with the same regulator.

So, an alternator like this https://www.amazon.com/DB-Electrical-AND0525-Alternator-Chevrolet/dp/B00KGIDF9Y/ref=br_lf_m_82annu2ancpt4mu_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&s=automotive ?
Edit: but at that price I would probably just buy a rock tumbler.

You'd have to retrofit anything, there isn't any sort of 24V conversion kit. And anyway, adding a 24V electrical system without running anything off of it is just wasted money. I'm well aware of the advantages of running a higher system voltage, but none of those advantages come into play if you aren't actually using it for anything. If you were converting the entire truck (or even just the starter circuit) to 24V electronics, then it'd make sense, but adding a 24V system without any sort of load is pointless.

Again, if you're talking about using the truck to charge the onboard 24VDC electrical systems of an existing RV, my point becomes moot. Here's a 24V alternator, it might work in the existing bracketry without modifications, but don't be surprised if you end up actually having to put work into making it work: https://www.amazon.com/Exciting-Alternator-Universal-Tractor-Applications/dp/B004KMTRXK

https://www.amazon.com/Eagle-High-Alternator-Chevrolet-Suburban/dp/B01ACGUWVI this one looks closer to what he has

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017GGC6WK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_HKm3Cb6548VES

https://www.amazon.com/Brushes-Nippondenso-Alternators-021620-2720-27370-42010/dp/B00AY219X6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466015035&sr=8-1&keywords=nippondenso+alternator+brush

If your truck is a Toyota , this is likely what you need to freshen them up. If the bearings are quiet , let them be.

I put one these on my 1991...200 amps is hard to beat.

https://www.amazon.com/Powermaster-43311-Alternators-CHRY-ALT/dp/B000GVJSCO/ref=au_as_r?_encoding=UTF8&Make=Jeep%7C42&Model=Cherokee%7C347&Year=1991%7C1991&ie=UTF8&n=15684181&newVehicle=1&s=automotive&vehicleId=1&vehicleType=automotive

I just ordered this one on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Premier-Gear-PG-11070-Professional-Alternator/dp/B00KY07C5W/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1551060096&sr=8-3&keywords=alternator+2012+gti

What do the tools you've recommended do?

My understanding is that I need to disconnect the battery. Then with a 17 mm socket or breaker bar retract the belt tensioner, hold it out of the way with a hex key as a pin. Pull the belt off the alternator, remove the bolts, pull it out, remove the cable, then do it in reverse.

To my recollection (it's been a couple years), you'll just need a decent socket wrench and a set of metric sockets. Took me about half an hour to get the old one out, then about 45 minutes to get the new one in because I was a little anal about the tension. This would appear to be your alternator, and you can get a replacement on Amazon prime for about $120 here. Double-check your part-numbers first, though.

so after replacing the voltage regulator on the alternator and bring it to AutoZone I got a passing alternator and reinstalled it into the truck. Fired it up and I was reporting over 14 and a half volts. Here's the link to the voltage regulator that I use for $13 on Amazon Voltage Regulator for Ford 3G... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LPR1HY?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Edit: Thaks for the gold anonymous strangers

Edit 2: Some clarifications

Edit 3: Sanitized for /r/bestof

(NOTE Many of the links referenced are not intended or implied to be exhaustive research, the were just simply 'bout the first thing I could find.)

So as a firearm enthusiast, I have to object to your parroting here. Everything you suggest (or others suggest) is either already in place, known to not work, or non-existent. Let me address:

> Limit the gun industry with regulations

1. The firearm industry is already so immeasurably straddled with regulations that it's hard to put a meaningful metric on it. One tiny example: several ounces of metal and plastic in fairly basic shapes, which would cost on the order of cents to a few dollars and cents to produce and bring to market in any other industry costs on the order of $30 to bring to the market in the firearms industry.
   
   To add to this, due to these regulations, firearms themselves are simply outrageously priced when compared to similarly complicated devices in other industries.
   
   > remove their ability to lobby congress
   
   
2. So lobbying is a big, big problem (and I actually agree with you on this one in principle), but who gets to decide who get's to lobby? I would suggest outlawing all lobbying, but for the time being, an industry lobbying for their dollar is little different than any other industry lobbying. You can't say one industry or interest can or cannot lobby. This should be applied to big oil, big pharma, big banks, etc. All of which can be accused of killing far more people than firearms.
   
   Personal anecdote: I don't like the NRA any more than you do. But they're the only one protecting a not-insubstantial investment I've made and a hobby I enjoy. So I give them a non-insubstantial amount of money every year. If there were a better way, I would do it, but there's a heavily mis-informed level of hostility based on non-truths or barely-truths that I (and other firearm owners) have nowhere else to turn to.
   
   CASE IN POINT:
   
   > close the gun show loop holes
   
   
3. There is no such thing as the "gun show loophole".
   
   EDIT FOR CLARITY: I'm not suggesting that we shouldn't do away with private sales, what I'm taking offence to is a made up term for a made up problem that simply does not exist PDF WARNING. It's a little old--and there's a newer one somewhere, I just can't find it--but 0.7%, that's 7 out of 1000--not total guns, criminals that got their guns at gun shows.
   
   There's not even a written exemption for private-party sales, it's simply a side-effect of the Commerce Clause of the US constitution. A private person may sell a firearm to another private person provided they have no reason to believe the buyer is prohibited from buying a firearm, and can only do it in their home state to a resident of their home state. I'd also like to point out that it is ILLEGAL for a private seller to use the NICS (background check) system. If a widow inherits a bunch of guns, she is free to sell them to anybody she likes (with many exceptions), and if she chooses to, can rent a table at a gun show. This is the extent of that alleged "loophole." With that said, and I've only been to a handful of gun shows, I've never once seen a private person offering firearms. The overwhelming majority are licensed dealers and the background check laws apply. There is no law anywhere in the country exempting gunshows from any state or federal firearms-related regulations.
   
   Source...FTA: "The Gunshow Loophole...is a political term in the United States..[and]..refers to a perceived gap in the law regarding the sale or transfer of firearms between private citizens. (emphasis added).
   
   > implement strict background checks
   
   
4. This already exists. I don't know what exactly you mean by strict, but if you've been convicted of a felony or any other disqualifying circumstance applies to you, you won't pass this. I've been through the background checks several dozens of times. They're a pain in the ass. I should mention that I and my wife are model citizens. She's a nurse while I'm an eagle scout, engineer, licensed pilot with access to the 911 facility in my town, every first-aid certification just short of EMT, volunteer emergency communications coordinator, storm chaser, and the department I manage at work handles 911 calls for THOUSANDS of businesses and residents.
   
   If you're suggesting the background checks involve (and be denied as a result) for any sort of brush with law enforcement...essentially anybody ever accused of a crime (I have been several times), then you start making a really slippery slope: Name one other constitutional right you forfeit because of an accusation? Remember, innocent until proven guilty. I get it, kids that show anti-social behavior and revolt against authority are an indicator, but are you seriously suggesting that every time some kid gets sent to the principal's office that it trigger a federal investigation?
   
   > take real action to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill
   
   

   This I will completely f'ing agree with you on.
   

   
   I don't know how to do it, so if you have some ideas, let me know. Like really...seriously, I know congressmen, we all know this the biggest problem. As a gun owner, I can tell you we would all be really thrilled to put something in place that would ease the red-tape us normal, never-gonna-shoot-up-a-mall people have to deal with. We don't like seeing this kind of stuff on TV either.
   
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   If you really want to know what annoys us...my guess is that you don't, but if you do...is that every time something like this comes along, some new encroachment comes along and is just a pain in our asses while really doing nothing for the perceived problem.
   
   NOTE: I'm kinda done digging up links, I will if you ask me to, but it's getting late.
   
   

• The FBI will tell you that mass shootings, while they're a big deal, amount to a proportionately small number of casualties. I'm not trying to downplay them, but mass shootings amount for on the order of a couple hundred deaths a year. Falls from ladders kill more people than that.
  
  
• You don't get to count suicides as "gun deaths". These people wanted to kill themselves and simply chose the most effective way to do so. Australia enacted sweeping firearm legislation and (as far as suicide goes) simply shifted the method of suicide to other means.
  
  
• Even the New York Times will tell you that this "assault weapon" mumbo jubo is nonsense
  
  
• Magazine capacity laws are meaningless. The Virginia Tech shooter just carried more magazines. Here's a video dispelling many of the things that capacity limits allege to produce.
  
  
• No other industry is legally liable for the illegal use of their products.
  
  
• Children finding guns and killing themselves is certainly tragic. That's not, however, our (the proverbial our) fault. A negligent parent is a big deal. Now, what are you going to to? Send them to prison when their family has already suffered enough?
  
  
• The vast majority of the remaining firearm related deaths (excluding suicide, genuine accidents, and legal killings) occur as minority on minority crime in major cities with (typically) stolen or otherwise illegally acquired guns. This is a function of income disparity, the drug war, and the poverty cycle coupled with violent culture. All the magazine capacity and background checks you can do won't correct this. And what are you going to do, make somebody a criminal simply because they were a victim of a crime (having their gun stolen)?
  
  
• EDIT: We don't know right now, but there's a very good chance that literally none of the proposed changes to firearms laws would have prevented this. If a "solution" can't be shown to have done so, why consider it at all?