135sohc
11-29-2010, 06:00 PM
Been tinkering with this damn thing and havnt gotten anywhere. Alternator is putting out nothing and its running entirely off the battery.
New voltage regulator made no difference. Tested out every circuit for continuity and the key on +12 volts to the exciter wire and VR, all was good. Alternator is grounded directly to the VR and the VR is directly grounded to the battery.
Even made a new harness to bypass all the factory garbage, just in case there was a bad intermittent splice, zero difference. :(
This is the 5th or 6th rebuild from pepboys (lifetime warrenty :rolleyes:), they last a couple years before going to crap. This most recent alternator doesnt even have any road time on it! (van has been layed up for other issues) and when bench tested it worked. Installed and now its deader than dead :confused2:
New voltage regulator made no difference. Tested out every circuit for continuity and the key on +12 volts to the exciter wire and VR, all was good. Alternator is grounded directly to the VR and the VR is directly grounded to the battery.
Even made a new harness to bypass all the factory garbage, just in case there was a bad intermittent splice, zero difference. :(
This is the 5th or 6th rebuild from pepboys (lifetime warrenty :rolleyes:), they last a couple years before going to crap. This most recent alternator doesnt even have any road time on it! (van has been layed up for other issues) and when bench tested it worked. Installed and now its deader than dead :confused2: