The alternator on my truck decided to die today. Fortunately, I
1) had a plow with a newly upgraded to a small car battery and long booster cables on the truck, so I could hook that up to the trucks battery to keep it running (prior to hooking it up, the battery had dropped to below 7 volts, and everything electrical in the cab had died)
2) have a parts truck (from when I upgraded my truck to 4wd), so I could nab the alternator from that (as a bonus, it's 145amp vs the blown 105Amp one in the truck) and install it