Another project in the books, a 220a alternator upgrade, for less than $200. I stumbled onto a 220a 84143541 alternator, that bolts right in place of the stock 150a. It was significantly marked down because the connector had been broken on the voltage regulator. I went ahead and bought it, with plans to replace the broken plastic somehow, but when I received it I found this:
Slightly disheartening, but also familiar looking. Turns out this alternator has the same regulator as the stock 150a...as well as some of the plastic pieces, so I swapped them over. There was one connection to solder, but it works great! Sadly I didn't get any pictures of it, but you can see the normal connector in the finished picture. Since the stock fuse is only 175a, I needed to install a larger fuse and charge wire for the alternator. My son and I had previously done the Big 3 upgrade on this with 1\0 gauge wire, so I picked up a 250a Megafuse, designed a mount to clamp the fuse to a cross brace...and then realized I don't have any TPU filament to 3d Print it with. I went ahead and used PETG, I'll reprint it when I get some TPU. Once I knew where to mount the fuse, we just had to make a new wire to run to the fuse bank\terminal\distribution block thingy. Came out pretty good:
We also have the next few weeks off, so I picked up a reverse leveling kit to lower the rear end a few inches. More pics of that, soon!
