Alternator experts... question
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From: winnipeg MB
Re: Alternator experts... question (daves80)
as blunt as you are, you can't read, becuase the 3rd sentance i wrote, says i completely isolated the alternator circuit, that means i disconnected the wire harness from the started to the entire car. theres a large clip pretty close to the distributer, it has 5 wires in it, 3 big red ones, a purple one (ignition) and a black for gnd, I DISCONNECTED it, i then put a jumper from the +12V over to the alternator's 2 contacts, then over to the distributer so it would run. Started the car by jumpering the starter solenoid. Its a basic GM power plant, no tricks or computers the same as every other system the general made for 20 years straight. :cheers:
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Re: Alternator experts... question (bloodvette80)
oh and obvisouly you didn't know that your battery can come out and the car will run fine. all the alternator does is maintain its output. It doesn't know if the battery is there or not. NO battery at all, is the same thing as a battery charged up to 13.5V from its point of view. You might want to learn a little before you start chirping. have a nice day.
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Re: Alternator experts... question (bloodvette80)
sooo -- in my furor to be a proper poster i had to go out and see if you could actually disconnect the battery with the engine running - ive got an 82 cutlass that i dont give a rat whether i blow it up or not -- anyway i started it - grabbed a pair of channel locks and tore the positive teminal off - i must say that it shook me to the core when lo and behold it kept on purring away - so i marched back to my computer -ate a whole crow and deleted all my previous posts - my new advise reads as follows --- gee i dont know why it wont run bloodvette 80 - did you check to see if there was gas? - :flag - dave
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