Another helpful comment....If you saw his rig or checked his gallery, his truck is yeller....

As for the alts that failed in Florida is was NOT the water - our alt gets wet all the time when it rains and is NOT the issue. Conductive mud and sediment is what takes out alternators like these - shorts them right out. Lisa took hers through a 10' wide mud hole just deep enough to get in the alt and it blew before we were half way through. On a previous trip to the slab, 5 of us went through a 50'+ long drive through the 3'+ deep river (Jennifer even deeper) at the Slab (several times) and all of came out fine in '99-01s.