battery light and o2 light

[brianm@earendel.org (Brian McGarvey)]

be aware of Aluminum cable problems. as time goes by it starts to oxidize.
and becomes a resister in series with your systsem. that will eventually
make it get really hot and catch fire, not today not next week prolly not
even in the next n years. They used to use it in homes, but they are not
allowed to anymore.
brian


On Sun, 26 May 2002, Brian Haygood wrote:

> Hey, I just went through this on my car!  I finally get to contribute useful
> info to the 'rocco list!
>
> Al gave me a technical rundown on the problem.  I will sum up:  Alternators
> have to have a voltage running through them before they can create more
> voltage.  This is accomplished by having a permanent magnet-based generator
> element inside them that gets things going.  When this "primer" current gets
> flowing, so-to-speak, then the alternator kicks in does its job.  If the
> magnet stuff goes bad, your alt never gets going.
>
> If the wiring is going bad this can make it harder to get the alt going (can
> you tell I don't really understand this because I use stupid terms like that
> over and over again??), and your lights stay on longer and longer.
>
> The alt and OXS lamps are both wired up such that the OXS light comes on
> whenever the alt light is on.  This is triggered by the blue wire on the
> back of the alt, which runs near the starter, has a connector at the (+)
> battery terminal, and heads to the dash.  This wire's (alt) voltage is
> compared to the battery voltage to see if the car is charging well enough.
> Bad grounding often causes all of this.
>
> Fix:  Clean all ends of all wires you can get to.  Clean mating surfaces of
> wires (including the little blue one, and the small wires atthe batt.
> terminals) with emory paper and/or soldering flux.  Clean the ground wire's
> connections to battery, body (behind battery (and maybe under airbox??)) and
> transmission mount (under airbox).  Also clean ends of wires at starter,
> alt, and the coil's connection to the intake manifold.  This cleaning is all
> it took for mine to run well.  Replacing these cables may provide further
> improvement, but my cables were in decent shape.
>
> PS:  Just moved my battery to the rear yesterday, and the car starts even
> better now.  Used some trick aluminum wire that weighs only 3 lb's to get
> all the way to the front with a seriously massive cable.  I have a lot of
> this stuff left over if anyone wants to make new cables, or relocate their
> battery.  I'm bringing it to Cincy.
>
> Brian
> >From: breandan mcilwain <irisheet@yahoo.com>
> >To: scirocco list <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> >Subject: battery light and o2 light
> >Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 19:15:02 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >these 2 lights are staying on for a few moments when i
> >fire up the car, it has never done this in the past
> >and i dont understand why it is doing it now.  does
> >this indicate i am having a charging problem?  i have
> >a new alternator and all new belts
> >
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