Re: Tech: Alternator problem- I need help badly!!!

[VWMikeLVW@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/3/00 6:14:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
scirocco@powerlink.net writes:


> OK. here is the story, my oddometer has been working intermittantly so I
> remove the guage cluster and don't have time to finish it before work.  So
> I drive to work after plugging just the speedo onto the cable.  Never paid
> attention to the voltmeter, at lunch I see the voltmeter reads 12 volts,
> less than it's usual 13/14.  I figure it has something to do with the guage
> cluster being out, no need to worry.
> So after work I head home and over the 25 mile drive the volt reading
> drops more and more.  By the time I get home it is under 8volts and the car
> is almost dead-but I made it.
> I check the brushes and they look good.  So this morning I get up and buy a
> rebuilt(my bearing were going anyway).  I install it and the battery which
> I removed to charge(less than one year old Diehard).  Starts right up.  I
> drive to work noticing that volt reading is at 12V again.  I start to
> worry.  After work it does the same thing, dropping down more and more, but
> it does it in only  a few miles(long cold walk).  So I'm thinking "what are
> the chances this rebuilt is screwed up in exactly the same way as the old
> one?"  Now I kind of wonder what could it be?  I didn't think the guage
> cluster being out of the car had anything to do with it, but I wonder just
> a little bit now; that is the one thing that is different than normal.  Any
> ideas?
>
> Oh and if you read this Julie, rebuilt alternator for a A/Ced car- $90



Without the cluster, you have no charge light. No charge light = no charge.

> John C. Worden    
> Wayne, Maine
>
> '98 Dakota 4x4-Overdrive is finished
> '86 Scirocco 8V- 
> '81 Scirocco 2.0 16V - Needs an oil pump gear




Mike
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