ls1 alternator bad? Water the cause?

[sman]

Kinda curious how much water an ls1 alternator can take. Been driving my car almost 2 weeks now issue free(for the most part) and tonight coming home from work I notice my blinkers are REALLY slow, theyve always been slow but now there bearly flashing. Look down and the volt meeter show about 10volts, roughly halfway between the 8 and 13.

The last couple days its wined on startup for a minute(never a good sound), and today it appears dead, measured 11.9 on our electrical tester.

My question is, I bought it used a long time ago, could it just be bad? Or did all this rain and water on the road have something to do with it? I know there is a rubber flap thing on ls1's protecting the alt, which I never found so I could never install one. What are the chances of a new one getting fried from this, the flap only protects one side anyway?

[s.reef]

if you bought it a long time ago my guess it went bad

[sman]

Well, by a long time ago I mean back in November, so its not like I can get ahold of the guy regarding the issue.

I know they can just go bad, but I was just wondering how likely it was, and if possible what the cause was.

[sman]

Made ALOT of noise on my way to class today, but it charged the first 2 or 3 minutes. Then it quit, I think its definitely on its way out.

[98blackbeauty]

One would think if they are that prone to failure from water, every time we have heavy rains half of the LS1 powered cars would be getting new alternators.