Alternator problem
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Alternator problem I replaced 2 different alternators in the past year. The problem i'm having is periodic. Sometimes i get in the car, and everything with voltage is fine. Other times it's low, and after about 5-10 minutes the voltage goes to normal. Any ideas? I've checked all the grounds, etc..
I replaced 2 different alternators in the past year. The problem i'm having is periodic. Sometimes i get in the car, and everything with voltage is fine. Other times it's low, and after about 5-10 minutes the voltage goes to normal. Any ideas? I've checked all the grounds, etc..
Have you checked for corrosion everywhere?
You wouldn't happen to have power steering fluid dripping onto the alternator would you?
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i drove it home, and the battery didn't have enough juice to start the car. There is no corrosion on the battery. I don't believe there is power steering fluid dripping on the alt.
Drive to Advance Auto tomorrow and have them check the battery and alternator, then report back here.
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Won't be able to goto advance auto until friday morning. Last night when i got home, the battery was dead, and car wouldn't start. Today when i got home, it started, then the gauge went down, turned car off, and it wouldn't start... I'm baffled
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I have the SAME EXACT problem!!! Please let me know what you find out! I did originally have a power steering leak, which was fixed and the alternator replaced, but I still have the problem... I can't trust my car hardly as a daily driver!
Could be alot of other things too, but damn....check your batteries and alternators.
Also, make sure your excitor wires are in good condition.
Its the little tiny wire with a plug on it, that plugs into the top of the alternator. If you pop the hood you can look straight down at the alternator and see it plugged in. Alot of times they break and get ripped, stretched and torn. That wire is responsible for starting the alternator charging AFTER the engine is started. Its a little ******.
Do it the way I did it. Those plastic 2 ended couplers that you stick the wire in each end, then crimp them with a plyer. Then I suggest using that shrinking **** that you use with a lighter, just to keep moisture out.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LS1-A...Q5fAccessories
Its electrical stuff. You cut the wire, then you take the old wire end and stick it into this coupler, then you take the new wire end and stick it in the other end of thie same coupler. Then you squeeze it with plyers at each end. There's metal built into the plastic coupler at each end where the wire ends go in. When you squeeze the ends you clamp down on the wire ends and now the wire has been fixed. Then use that shrink wrap stuff.
They have all this stuff at any auto parts store.
They have all this stuff at any auto parts store.
They're called "butt connectors".
These are actually heat shrinkable ones. You crimp the wire ends where the metal tubes inside are (you can see the metal tubes), then you heat shrink each end around the wire to make it waterproof.
http://order.waytekwire.com/products...%20CONNECTORS/
http://order.waytekwire.com/productd...TOR%2022-18GA/
Heat shrink: They sell them in 2 inch lengths that you slide over the wire, crimp them together with the BUTT CONNECTOR....then slide the shrink tube over the entire connector and use a lighter to shrink it and seal around the connector.
http://order.waytekwire.com/products...HEAT%20SHRINK/
These are actually heat shrinkable ones. You crimp the wire ends where the metal tubes inside are (you can see the metal tubes), then you heat shrink each end around the wire to make it waterproof.
http://order.waytekwire.com/products...%20CONNECTORS/
http://order.waytekwire.com/productd...TOR%2022-18GA/
Heat shrink: They sell them in 2 inch lengths that you slide over the wire, crimp them together with the BUTT CONNECTOR....then slide the shrink tube over the entire connector and use a lighter to shrink it and seal around the connector.
http://order.waytekwire.com/products...HEAT%20SHRINK/
Last edited by LS6427; May 13, 2009 at 11:25 PM.
