So my son’s 1996 4Runnder (3.4L) looks like the alternator is starting to go. Back in the day on my Olymouth and my wife’s Chevy I used to be able to service the alternators myself by replacing the brushes and cleaning the unit up. I can’t find a reputable source that shows we can do on the 3.4L or part numbers. Has anyone done this? And if so, where did you source the brushes and springs?

Thanks in advance!

 

Rock Auto shows the brushes for a 1996 3.4L, I don't see any springs listed.

 

They might be one piece. They were for my Plymouth, but not my Chevy.

 

Usually, Denso alternator brushes are offered as a complete assembled cassette that just bolts in with two screws.

Easy, peasy.

 

My son works for LKQ/keystone, so he actually got a low mileage unit for just over the cost of the rebuild kit.

Thanks again for the help though. We’ll probably rebuild this one and keep it as a spare.

 

I used this kit: https://alternatorbrush.com/collecti...-toyota-tundra

 

They might be one piece. They were for my Plymouth, but not my Chevy.

 

Every post from your account is copy and pasting from other users and gumming up dead threads. Reporting again…..

 

Good old spam bots, where would we be without them?

Better off, of course.

 

And here I am talking to a bot like it’s listening I feel it’s gonna get worse than better but it’s so weird I just don’t get the point of what it does besides the weird links on the posts. Eh whatever

 

I think they try to build up some sort of reputation by making a series of innocuous posts before starting up with the spam?

Dunno, I see that on other forums. Some spambots start off with a flurry of spam posts, some do gibberish copy-pasta with embedded spam links, some do nice-bot impressions like this one by reposting random comments.

There's the dead internet theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory ), I certainly don't agree with the conspiracy parts of that (they're controlling us!) but the parts about an ever increasing percentage of social media consisting of artificially generated content? Sure, I see plenty of that. Some sites are nothing but AI generated recaps of social media. Facebook is full of bots setup to farm reactions with fake posts and AI generated pictures.

What's the point?

 

Good old spam bots, where would we be without them?

Better off, of course.

 

No way you’re a bot sir but if you are a spam bot from 15 years ago you’re way ahead of your time