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Old 07-10-2007, 12:30 PM
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Well my car dies the other night and i have been posting about it for a few days now and i thouhgt it was the alternator but i took the thing out twice brought it to a few different places to have it tested ....came back fine everytime.. had the battery tested too its great... was pullin it out this morning to have it checked out agian and saw a LITTLE RED WIRE hanging and i have read about it in a post before... looked at the plug on the alternator that i thouhgt was useless and saw it had broken from there.. so i went and got a new connecter wired them back together and works fine now..its for the voltage regulator ..haha i ripped my alternator out liek 6 times and its a litte f-in wire that had broke. im guessing it was barely connected before when my car died and then when i took it out the first time i must have just snapped it haha what an idiot so everyone beware of this little red wire its a head ache!!!!!
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thats usually what happens....its called the excitor wire
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Old 07-10-2007, 05:11 PM
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Thank you for re-posting once you found the solution. So many times we never hear about what the problem really was.




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