Quote: After all is said and done put a smaller diameter drive pulley on the alternator.
Not all that great an idea. "Back when" I was roaring around Sand Diego in my '70, it had the "optional" 60-65? amp alternator. Small pulley ona 440sixpack. After 2 failures, I figured out the ratio. 4:1 !!!!??? This means that when the engine is spinning at 5K, the alternator is spinning.........20,000 RPM!!!!
The windings vibrate inside, and scrape the insulation off "themselves," the little pins that the stator indexes onto in the cases wear, and allow the stator to get out of alignment. In one case, the stator was hitting the rotor!!!
