I do have a local shop that will rebuild the alternator for me but in this case it wasn't worth the savings to wait for that to be done. If I had another car I could drive that would be a different story.

I have a big box of oetiker clamps at my hangar so I am just going to drain the ps reservoir this weekend when I am over there and then replace those clamps. I have big aversion to worm clamps. I would have done it last night but I didn't have time to drive and grab the oetiker clamps and pliers.

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