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Most can run either direction.
Some alternators will see a drop in voltage when run backwards. How much, don't know and I don't know if the ford ones care.
that's why I was asking; alternators generate 3-phase AC and it's the rectifiers which control output polarity. I wouldn't expect them to output anything differently spinning in either direction.