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smoking alternator ground
Allyn wrote:
> That ground should not be necessary, unless the ground from tranny to chassis is missing, in which case the starting current and
> alternator charging current could easily overload it, if it is of insufficient gauge?
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> Al
I'm pretty sure that the tranny is grounded. I'll check tomorrow anyway.
We put a test light between the neg cable and the neg post as the guy at
the alternator place suggested to check for current. Light was off with
the key off but when the key was on the light was on. We took the
alternator ground cable off and the light was on but dimmer. We checked
just the alternator cable and the light was bright.There seems to be two
ground cables coming off the alternator, this one going straight to the
post, and one that feels like it attaches to the block.
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