AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! LOUD NOISESS!!!!

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SSSSOOOOOOOOPPPERRRR ANGRY (As David already knows)!

I went out to Pick-A-Part(y) last weekend with Patrick, where I met our lovely new couple and picked myself up a 96amp alternator. Well, today at the shop I had nothing else to do, so I popped the pulley off and gutted the internals so I could spray paint the outside with a faux-chrome spray paint. Well, that started the downhill slide into insanity.
Right off the bat I noticed there was no spring behind the brushes, so the brushes just kind of sat there limply. So, I gutted my old alternator for it's springs. Then I noticed the back brush was... Well, half gone. Whatever, I could live with a limited life span. So I continued on. Well, then I noticed that the pulley wouldn't line up properly, so I swapped around the shaft spacers until it lined up. However, once torqued, it wouldn't spin, so I had to add in even more spacers. Ok, so I got all that nonsense fixed (Whilst managing to cut myself in three different places, and busting the daylights out of my elbow) so then it was time to reassemble. Well, that brought a whole new level of frustration as nothing lined up, everything popped out of place and one of the brushes got stuck way too far down, and that meant ripping everything back down to base components. By the end of my shift, I was just trying to line it up and put it back in (Which resulted in a sprained wrist) which brought me right up to the point of wanting to hit myself in the face with a wrench. Eventually, I did end up getting it in, which would have been where the frustration ended... If all the effort would have fixed the issue. Or if it would have even broken even.
But it didn't, it made things worse, as now the alternator doesn't charge at all, and I had to limp the car home trying to avoiding using the brakes as the brake lights would drain the already low battery.

So. Unbelievably. Livid.