smoking alternator ground

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

This may be where a picture is worth a thousand words, so it's easier to
tell what wires on the alternator we're talking about. And it's easy to
ground the tranny temporarily with a jumper cable from the tranny to the
negative battery post, see if that makes a difference. Even if the wire's
there, it may be corroded all to shit under the airbox.
But be sure all those alternator wires are going to the right spots first,
red, for an example, isn't usually a ground wire (brown generally IS),
unless someone rewired it with whatever wire they had on hand, then it's
open season on what goes where! :)
Cathy
Never trusting wiring to be stock 20 years after manufacture...

 On 10:22 pm 01/04/07 Jacob Hawes <gr8hunter1@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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?
> >
> >  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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