cummins 6b5.9 alternator failures
My 93 Winnie Vectra on a Spartan chassis with Cummins 5.9 is about to get its 3rd or 4th alternator in 70 kmiles. It had already failed when we bought the rig and the shop that replaced it had to cut...
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DSDP Don wrote:
-Could a longer belt be used to allow the alternator to rotate farther away and clear the tensioner?
That motor was used in a lot of applications and there could be dozens of tensioner/braket configurations.
I know my previous Ram had 3 different belt numbers one could choose from. Shortest one was for no A/C, next size was with A/C and the third or biggest being for the Jacobs exhaust brake with A/C. The third was kind of rare cause no Ram with auto had a stock exhaust brake. The Jacobs was a dealer add on and only started with the 06 MY with a auto tranny.
