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more voltage problems



yea.  I made a new alternator to Starter cable.  put in a voltage
regulator from my spare alternator and made a new blue wire that goes
from the alternator.  the alternator to start is 4Gauge wire now.  it
apears to be working but time will tell.haven't drove it again because
of other problems.

On 7/19/05, Dan Bubb <jdbubb@verizon.net> wrote:
> David,
> In this particular case Derrick is running a TEC II, so I don't know that
> your comments apply.
> OTOH, I agree with you and I've heard that it can damage the alternator to
> disconnect the battery with the engine running.
> Don't remember where I heard this, might be in the Bentley as a warning, or
> it might be an old out of date thing.
> All I know is I wouldn't do it.
> 
> As Patrick said, I'd check the regulator brushes.
> Dan
> 
> 
> From: "David Utley" <fahrvegnugen@cox.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:15 AM
> 
> 
> >
> >>
> >> From: Derrick floyd <tyrone27@gmail.com>
> >> Date: 2005/07/19 Tue AM 12:18:13 EDT
> >> To: Scirocco-L <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> >> Subject: more voltage problems
> >>
> >> well I ran in to more voltage problems tonight.  was driving up the
> >> street and the voltage dropped from 14V to 11.8  and it stayed there.
> >> I have to cut every thing off to get it to go to 12.3  i cut it off
> >> and restarted it and it was working fine again.  while it was running
> >> I unhooked the battery and it ran on its own for a while.
> >
> > I've got bad news for you.  This tends to kill, or at least stress the FI
> > and knock brains.  You could get away with this on a non-FI car, but I
> > would strongly suggest not doing it on a FI car...
> >
> > I am prolly beating a dead horse here, but just in case...
> >
> > David
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