Of Batteries and Alternators....

[sciroccos at earthlink.net (Jim R)]

Argh...you hit a nerve.
I'm spiffing up the wiring in my 87, cutting out brittle wiring and replacing.  The sender wiring insulation is all cracked and I found that the distributor connection had a masking taped, unsoldered, hand-twisted splice!  The batt to alt cable is in fine shape, it's just that the sheathing was brittle.  I have new nylon sheathing (black, instead of tan, but otherwise very OEM-looking) and can't fit both the cable and blue exciter wire inside of the sheathing...argh.  I wanted this to be easy and clean....oh well.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: julie@menloparkrandd.com [mailto:julie@menloparkrandd.com]
>Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 2:00 PM
>To: Org, Scirocco
>Subject: Of Batteries and Alternators....
>
>
>Symptoms. Some mornings there would be no power to start the car. 
>I'd charge the car up and it would run fine for a week or 2. 
>Then... Dead again.
>Replaced the battery. Must be an old one I thought. A few weeks 
>later. Dead again. So I took to keeping a jumper Battery in the 
>car "just incase".
>
>Tired of the bug, I went to the local parts store to check the 
>alt. "Hummm. (he said) 12.5v at the battery. Bad Alt". Sooo. grab 
>another, and a new cable and off to the garage in a ice storm.
>
>**** remember to remove the neg terminal before Alt work. Unless 
>you want to weld *****
>
>I replaced the Alt, then started to replace the cable. The Walmart 
>cable, I replaced 2 years ago was rusted. Not just corroded, but 
>heavy rust.
>
>So now with a new battery and Alt (under warrantee) the car 
>charges properly. The ice strom left4 mm of lick ice over every 
>thing. Looked beautiful, till the 2 hour power outage. GACK! NO INTERNET!
>
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