Before I take off my alternator... AGAIN!!
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Before I take off my alternator... AGAIN!!
Alright, I replaced my stock alternator on my T/A back in April. As far as I know it was the factory unit with around 95,xxx miles. Well, that went fine until now... same problems, my battery charger that I have says that it's the alternator. This time however, the car never dies, my voltage will drop to about 11.58 and just stay around there. Friend thinks it may be a bad belt slipping on the pulley. This IS a REMANUFACTURED unit.. could this be something else or did I just get a shitty reman?
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Damn...
Mine is doin the same thing..it stays at around 11 but doesn't die...just put another replacement autozone alternator in and got the pigtail replaced on the wiring...I also just put a brand new Optima redtop battery in so that's all good. The shop says they checked all the wiring and everything is god so the think it is a bad PCM dropping the voltage. It would be expesive to get another computer to see if that's what it really is. Hope someone can help us both cuz this sucks!!
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well obviously you're drawing power from somewhere, whether it's electrical or mechanical like you mentioned, can always get a new pulley and belt and see if that helps as that may be the cheapest to start with. i'm taking you've checked all connections and wiring?
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Yeah, it's throwing all kinds of codes for the emissions that I deleted as well as the rear O2 sensors. Car could probably use a tune.. I'm about to take it off and head to autozone so i'll get back and let you know if it was just a shitty alternator
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I have read the horror stories of remanufactured alternators. I would guess this is your problem. Have you done any research on replacing with a AC Delco higher output truck alternator? I have heard some good things about this swap vs remanufactured stockers.
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In case anyone needs to look at this for future reference... It was a bad alternator, but autozone replaced it no questions asked. Gay I had to replace it, but it's all over now so now we all know... MAKE SURE YOU GET A WARRANTY!!