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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: jaed_43725 on February 01, 2013, 05:41:02 pm
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>:( Ok, so when I start the car and blip the throttle to 2K it goes up normally. After that the tach just goes to like 600 RPM and then slowly drops from there. I can tell its not charging because the fuel gauge and water temp gauge both slowly fall. By slow here I am talking about 40 miles and the battery is dead. I have a new alternator which is tested good, the belt tension is good. The only thing that is old is this black thing on the back of the alternator that has a blade plug in and its held on by an 8mm bolt. Any help is greatly appreciated. I don't want to have to take this thing somewhere but if I have to I will.
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Perhaps a broken wire along the line somewhere. Makes contact then does not. Clearly you are not charging up.
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Not charging and/or the GP relay stuck.
Unless the accessories are on (lights, fan etc.) a battery should keep a diesel engine running for hours (if not days).
I would charge the battery and test:
- Meter the battery, should be ~12.5V
- With the ignition switch in the ON (run) position, but engine not running, the battery should read ~11.5V until the GP relay opens (~20sec), then back to ~12.5V.
- Meter between battery neg and blue wire at the alternator D+ terminal should be ~1.5V. The dash LED should be illuminated.
- Meter between battery neg and big red cable at alternator B+ terminal should be ~12V.
Start the engine:
- Wait ten seconds and rev the engine once to 2000rpm
- Battery voltage should read ~13.5-14.5V
- Blue wire at D+ terminal on alternator should read the same as battery
- LED on dash should not be illuminated
If these check out ok, then it is likely a connection problem with grounding.
(The black module is a condenser to suppress RFI from interfering with your AM radio... not important.)
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Is this your new alternator. Might be better as a followup to your original thread. "Whats the best alternator"
Keep reading.
TD Give up AM radio. No way, how am I going to find out what is going on the world.
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I am gonna do the checking then. I hope its not serious, but then again there aren't many wires on this thing. I read somewhere someone changed all their little wires for substantially bigger ones and it made quite a difference. If everything checks out then I am gonna have to drop it off at Apex Tuning.