I got the brushes at a local automotive electrical repair shop.  I brought
them the alternator to see if they could rebuild it (its better and
cheaper to rebuild your bosch than to replace it with anything else) and they
sold me the brushes.  BTW, they wanted 3 or 4 $ for brushes but i only had
$2 on me so i bargained them down!

To check the brushes:
-remove starter
-unscrew the black box on the back of the starter
-you will see the two brushes, if they just fall out or are different
lenths they need to be repaced
-to repace grind down the solder on the back of the black box and the
brushes will fall out with their wires attached
-thread the wire attached to the new brushes through  the hole in the
solder and resolder to hold the wire to the back.

This will all make sense if you remove the black box and are looking at
the brushes.

Andrew

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Bill Knight wrote:

> Andrew M Fox said:
>
> P.S. with the advice of listmember Jon Kanas i just fixed my
> alternator
> for $2 (new brushes).  Sure beats a rebuilt unit at $180!
>
> >Where did you get the brushes?
>