EV> EV>Sunday afternoon a neighbor who works for an Auto Store listened to   
   EV> EV>the noise and said the Alternator Bearings were bad.   
      
   EV> HG> It's quite easy to diagnose a bearing failure. A fan belt   
   EV> HG> failure is also easy to diagnose.   
      
   EV>When the car started up that Friday afternoon I thought it sounded   
   EV>more like something went wrong with the motor.   
      
   EV>The noise was similar to what I heard when I was in Wyoming driving   
   EV>up the Rocky Mountains, that's why I thought it was the engine.   
   EV>That time I had the car towed to Laramie for a motor exchange before   
   EV>I could drive back to Indiana.   
      
   In my day I have replaced quite a number of Generators and Alternators.   
   Whiel the sound in close to some other probems they had a distinctive   
   rattle that one learned to recognize.   
      
   EV>I used to be able to do simple things, but that was before cars got   
   EV>computerized.   
      
   Same here ,I did every thing on my and kids cars except work on   
   Automatic Transmissions   
      
   EV>I built a Heath-Kit Ignition Analyzer to check out my cars, but now   
   EV>I haven't the slightest idea how to use it with my Dodge that has a   
   EV>Distributorless Ignition System.   
      
   I built a number of CD Ignition systems by Heathkit and Allied   
   Radio. I thought they were the best addition to an automobile engine   
   avilable.   
   No more kita avilable but MSD makes a very nice prebuilt unit for the   
   super preformance types. With the modern ignition systems it is not   
   necessary for the casual driver.   
      
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