Alternator/Electrical Question

[Blas]

You'll have an personal message in a moment....

[Joe Wicked]

Sounds like it was never wired right. Where are you located? I am sure someone local to you would be willing to help you out.

[acmjg]

Good reading at the sites below.
Good luck!
Anthony


http://www.rowand.net/Shop/Tech/Alte...atorTheory.htm

http://www.erareplicas.com/427man/wiring/alt.htm

http://www.madelectrical.com/index.shtml

http://www.midnightdsigns.com/james/...g%20Gauges.htm

[rtstrack]

IT'S ALIVE....IT'S ALIVE...after numerous hours of tinkering and replacing several wires/parts she was reading 13.8ish/14.0 even with the fans and lights on. Not sure what it ended up being but I think it was one of three choices #1 I replaced the voltage regulator (even though I had just replaced it 3 weeks ago), couldn't be sure if I fried it mish mashing wires. It was a cheap swap out. #2 I have looped battery cable ends so I was using a connector on the top posts. I switched to the side posts after I noticed that whenever i brought it to advanced auto to charge/check the battery it would always come up as BAD when i had the connectors on and GOOD when it was directly connected to the posts. So I assumed that if the machine was having a hard time reading through the connectors maybe a charge wasn't getting back to the battery #3 I already had a wire running from the BAT of the alternator to my fuse panel and in turn a wire was running from the fuse panel into the solenoid (and then on to the battery), but I also ran a direct wire from BAT to the solenoid (bypassing the fuse pannel). So I really want to send out a big THANK YOU TO EVERYONE for getting me up and running

Regards
Ryan

[rokndad]

Isn't that a relief!! Good going.

[Ron61]

Glad that you got it going. Now be sure that you draw yourself a diagram of just how you wired it for future reference in case you need to do something else.

Ron

[Joe Wicked]

Glad you are up and running. I doubt it was the battery connectors. You shouldn't see 12 volts through them if they were bad. I have gotten bad regulators before, but I would lay may money on the Batt wire to the fuse box, and then back to the battery. Even if there was good connection in the fuse box, there may have been a break in the wire somewhere along the way.

Do like Ron said, and draw a diagram of your changes. It may seem like an easy one to remember, but 5 years from now, after you have made some other changes, it can get confusing.