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

[Night Shadow <soltwede@privateI.com>]

John, I take it your electrical plug was disconnected from the cluster?
You have to have this connected for the alt to start charging.  The
"excite" (the blue wire that you hook to the alt next to the main
power) wire requires the alternator light in the cluster to be there to
complete the circuit...if it isn't there, no charge from the alt....

Eric


On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, John C. Worden wrote:

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

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91 Cabriolet (2.0 8v swap and mechanical rebuild in progress)
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