I just went through quite a hassle with the alternator on my 2004 Expy. Got the replacement, a reman in a Motocraft case. Alternator appears to function perfectly; but when I went to tighten two screws which hold the alternator case and the top brace/bracket together the threads in the case gave way pretty quickly. I used an inch pound torque wrench set to the Ford recommended 79 inch poinds and one of the threads gave up right away, the other I just tightened snug by hand without the tq wrench. My guess is that the threads in the case were weak because, being a reman, it had been installed by someone else previously and that someone used either an air wrench or an electric wrench. Those3 tools can ruin parts in the wrong hands, great for removal not for installation however.
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