Streetwiseguy said:
I told him that he needed a Bosch pump, and it would cost another hundred because he had cut the proprietary electrical connectors off.
I'm an excellent teacher.
FTFY.
Streetwiseguy said:
I told him that he needed a Bosch pump, and it would cost another hundred because he had cut the proprietary electrical connectors off.
I'm an excellent teacher.
FTFY.
Seven, yes, Seven voltage regulators for my Cummins before I found an old school armature shop to put in an internal regulator.
We're talking all the FLAPS, Napa, mail order, etc. I learned a lot.
Now, I got 2 months out of a "premium" battery from Advance. It seems the line continues to be pushed farther and farther.
During last year's Winter Rally, we were having some issues that seemed like alternator problems by the 4th stage, especially with all of our night floods on and running for the night stages. Car had an older alternator, newish belt tightened to spec before the rally, and an almost-new Optima battery.
We finished the final stage of the rally, pulled onto the road for our last transit, and boom, lights went out and car died.
On the way home I ordered up a new alternator. It arrived, and I went to put it on, noting the belt tensioner position pretty much at the max tightness position. But the belt was still loose. Turned out that it stretched substantially during the rally and could not be tensioned enough to actually turn the pulley. And this was an almost-new, major-brand belt (Dayco, IIRC). Guess I just got one that had been sitting on the shelf for many years or something and the rubber had deteriorated (hey, it's a 1985 car).
On the upside, we basically ran an entire stage rally on battery power alone from an Optima Yellow Top, which is pretty impressive.
( we have a spare voltage regulator and new brushes in our spares kit now, and new alternator and PS belts ziptied to the cage behind the seats now).
helped a friend replace his alternator. I was there to look over his shoulder and instruct. After an hour of the new one not going on he was obviously questioning my abilities to instruct. We went to a different parts store and it went on immediately. the bracket was bent on the first one.
Then their high-energy parts seller wanted to try it himself before giving us a refund on the bent one.
Along the same lines as having them test the alternator before leaving the store (i'm going to put that one under my belt) I now have them double-check part numbers before I leave. I spent an extra two hours under a Honda Accord with a half shaft that would not go into the transmission because someone brought me the wrong one.
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