Alt and One Wire Failure Pics

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Stopped with the woman for lunch Luckily, she was in the car. Battery was dead in the truck in front of the Mexican restaurant.

Brand new windshield trim and gasket..."Happy" turns into a AAA call.

He fired it right up with a little magic box. As I drove the 35 miles up the hill, I was trying to diagnose. I noticed the radio started turning
on and off and it seemed like some tests with the a/c proved that the juice generated was not keeping up with the draw....

Turning everything off, I came home, but when I stomped on it, it stuttered in an electronic way. A small backfire. Smoothing out the RPM to
the 2000 range it mellowed out and I got home.

The new Bosch wouldn't turn her over after I parked. Fan was slow and I had about 9v at the poles.

Battery charger up to 12.5. Started up and a check at the poles showed 11.8 while running. No increase when increasing the RPM. Grounded
the multimeter and poked the hot on the back of the Alt. 11.7...11.8. No higher when increasing RPMs.

Pulled the Alt. I figure it's time. But I'm not sure.

When I checked the connections, The connector with one brown wire from the Alt with one blade goes into the 2 wire connector with a blue and a
white wire coming out which runs down to what I'm calling the Voltage regulator Bypass...But the voltage regulator is really externally eliminated.

Question 1:

Looking at the connector at the white side of the blue and white connections, it looks funky. Like some of the white "receiver" has possibly corroded.
Again, I'm not sure. The harness is new, so maybe the white and blue wires connect deeper inside that plastic housing with the one blade coming out
of the brown wire from the Alt.

Is it funky?

Question 2:

What's a good replacement Alt? I'm pretty sure it's toast. Still operates smoothly. But no increase in voltage to the battery, or even at it's own hot connectors
while spinning at 2000 to 3500 RPM? Unless that connection is a likely suspect, it seems like time. I've never replaced it. It came with the serpentine system.

Any thoughts or tips?