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Old Sep 13, 2004 | 09:04 PM
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Need some help guys
1990 Coupe doing a water pump change this weekend and I dropped a wrench on the rear stud coming from the Alt. It smoked for a second and I was able to get it off there.
I swapped alt. with a new delco unit and had it checked so I know its good.When driving the battery light comes on and goes off and teh gauge reads right at 11 volts.I'm thinking that I'm driving off the juice that in the battery and the alt isn't charging.Maybe a fuse link is shot?
Where do I need to look?
Also I did change the 10 amp fuse to the gauges it was blown.

any help greatly appreciated

Jason
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Old Sep 14, 2004 | 06:07 PM
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The charge wire is protected by a fusible link which probably opened when you grounded the hot side with the wrench. You'll need to replace link. The old alternator may have been ok.
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Old Sep 14, 2004 | 06:43 PM
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Thats what it was I have replaced it and all is good now.
This is a dup post I don't know how but it came up twice we discussed my problem last night and I fixed it up.

Thanks for the help though

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