Son Noah's Tracker quit on him 5 or 6 weeks ago with a bad alternator. The alternator has seemed to be a weak link with that thing and I think we have put 3 alternators on the car over the years. Anyway, Noah didn't want to replace the bad part with another stock part, he wanted to modify it to use a Chevy S10 alternator. There's a couple off-road companies that make an adapter bracket and Noah was convinced he needed this kit.
And of course, he didn't have any money and this time he had enough common sense not to beg me for the cash. He let the car sit for several weeks and learned to ride the bus until this week when he got his tax money back. He called around and finally found out that this kit will fit a Tracker but only with some machine work that he wasn't prepared to accomplish.
And then I recommended that he call Checker Auto Parts or Autozone and just ask them if maybe, possibly, the alternator that he had might still be covered by a warranty...
Sure enough, 3 hours later he is on the road to go camping with a brand new alternator, replaced free of charge, from Checker! The battery that he was whining about turned out to be just fine as well...
Only took him 5 weeks to figure that out...
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