^Lol I thought that went without saying
I decided I would yank the alternator out last night and pull the regulator off so It could be ready to go in today when the parts come. As I pulled the regulator off the brushes wanted to stick to the rotor. I noticed a groove probably 1/32" thick where the brushes ride and "thought that's funny they would put that there as it makes it hard for the brushes to slide off" then fractions of a second later and to my dismay I came to the realization that this was wear on the rotor and the whole alternator needed to be replaced. I was able to source a rebuilt alternator locally and the OFHG as I wanted to swap that out while in there. I'm not proud of using a rebuilt alternator but at the end of the day that is what I was doing anyways just I wasnt going to check the bearings or anything else. SO maybe if anything it is better - at least that is what I'm telling myself. I'm fairly certain that there are no non-oe suppliers that even make parts for these so I'm telling myself its okay.
As a note for people making this repair. I was able to do this without removing the cooling hose at the top of the e tank. I left the fan in place and I did not disconnect the ps pump reservoir. I didn't fully remove the OFH just leaned it back enough to replace the gasket. Excluding parts run this all took about 2 hours. Of course if you are the kind of person who wants to scrub down the engine while you have these parts off it will take much longer as you will have to remove more parts. The serpentine belt was a huge pain to get back on with the fan there but I think it took substantially less time than trying to get the fan to thread back on would have. For some reason that always has me inventing new profanity for about a half hour.