Absolutely fuming

Clean water, dirty water, mud?

If your lucky it might just be the brushes have stuck, you could try give it a spray with a high
pressure washer while spinning it?

Ironjosh

There are a lot of cheap alternators in the market at the moment . I bet that's the problem with your new one . My mate who is a mechanic got caught by the local auto electrician last year .Ask him what brand the alternator is .

Cheers

hi
that's stiff luck the auto elects are in it for a $ and aren't all bonified honest
when you don't ask any indebt questions they see you coming and going and yes when they see a snorkel it would be a for-gone conclusion that you have or will take it for a swim even though there are a lot of 4by's that never do a river x-ing
some of the lecky's source the alternators from a wrecking yard and as long as they give a charging read out /give 'em a buff-up and wack em on and a way you go
by the way you could buy a boat with a motor on it for $500 ? cheers

Josh - How deep was the water? Up to the window sills? [:-)

All vehicles have a maximum recommended fording depth.
This depth can vary between 500mm (Amarok) and 800mm (Ford Ranger/Mazda BT50).

The 80 series is rated to 700mm fording depth. That's barely the top of the tyres.
If you went over that depth, the auto electricians are right to refuse a claim.
If you can prove the water was below 700mm depth, then you have a genuine claim against them.

Remember a snorkel doesn't automatically mean you can go through water 1.2M deep without a care.
There are plenty of components that can possibly suffer from water immersion damage at 700mm depth.
Wheel bearings are the classic problem after deep water crossings. Brakes are next to suffer. Drive belts will come off if deeply immersed.

Alternators will cope with a little water being splashed around, but they don't cope well with being totally immersed.
A tarp across the front will help prevent the engine bay filling up completely with water, but you have to keep moving as well.

Cheers, Ron.

You can be lucky like that guy who took a new VDJ79 across the Condamine flooded river 2008.
I would not like to buy his car after.

I feel your pain. Picked up the Patrol after getting the cruise control switch replaced at the auto leccie. That fixed the cruise problem but not 1km down the road I noticed the charge light, sub tank light and one other on. Was late for a meeting, but turned around anyways and headed back. They couldn't believe it but it turned out the ten year old alternator cacked itself. In went a (slightly) bigger Hitachi the next day and off we went up bush the following weekend. Hope mine lasts thru water, I tend to do a bit of that.

All the best

GWBonz

Hey, it's got a snorkel, it's good for another half a metre yet, isn't it!!?? [;-)

That bloke is just dead lucky that his 79 series ute didn't end up well downstream and a total write-off.
If it was one of the concrete crossings in the North of W.A., you wouldn't be able to stand up on it, even with only 300mm of water, due to the deadly slipperiness caused by the amount of green algae that covers the concrete.

More than one roadtrain driver has found himself travelling downstream after trying to negotiate what he thought was a modest depth of water over one of those concrete crossings!

Cheers, Ron.

Do we know what is wrong with the new alternator? If the water crossing caused the problem, not too big a stretch for the fitter to deny responsibility when someone immerses an electrical/electronic item in water. Maybe the failure is a coincidence and something other than water ingress is the problem.

Lots of people install snorkels for clean air on dirt roads, not necessarily because they are going to do water crossings every day.

Iza