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General Car Chat / Alternators - differences?
« on: 02 November 2015, 11:33:10 »
After a bit of research on here I find that the PFL and FL alternators seem to be different. there seems to be some faff or issue with fitting a FL alternator with black plastic rear to PFLs... the terminals are different, it seems? Can anyone either confirm this, or indeed tell me how little/much is involved in fitting said later alternator to an earlier car.
I've basically got offer of an alternator, for very little money, which I was going to replace the bearings of, clean/repaint/smarten up, and fit. But if it's a bit of a no-no, then I'll just have to do the same on my own alternator, it will just cost a bit more time.
Cheers. My car's still stuffed after the accident but my mind is already wandering onto fixing little rattles, squeaks and noises!
I've basically got offer of an alternator, for very little money, which I was going to replace the bearings of, clean/repaint/smarten up, and fit. But if it's a bit of a no-no, then I'll just have to do the same on my own alternator, it will just cost a bit more time.
Cheers. My car's still stuffed after the accident but my mind is already wandering onto fixing little rattles, squeaks and noises!
Of course everything's a compromise, and of course we're most likely not going to find a rust-free example with all the aforementioned. But as with Pissy the V6, she'd be never leaving the family, so the better the condition and the less work to be done in the longrun the better. It's a keeper, not for bodging through every MoT, kind of car. 