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I can't believe how much shit had to come off that car to get the alt belt in. Also, I believe that the old belt stretched naturally, as my new belt is much smaller than it even before the failure this morning. It's been stretching out for a while. Me taking it off yesterday was probably just the last straw.

Alternator spins fine. the power steering is run by a different belt. This one runs just from the crank to the water pump to the alt. I didn't replace the belt when I put the alt on. I didn't have the old alt off when I bought it, so I wasn't able to get the core and therefore wasn't able to afford a belt. I think it was just old, the little strip of metal (or whatever) that's on the belt frayed off, and stretched it out. It's not broken, but reaaally stretched out.

If I have one more issue with this car, I'm parting and crushing it just out of pure spite.

This is one of those "You've got to be fucking kidding me" moments. I'm on the way to school this morning and all the idiot lights come on, the volt meter is on 12, and the engine is idling at 2k. I drive back home. The alternator belt has somehow come off it's pulley and is all streched out. It's also been eaten to shit by the engine. Ugh.

What I meant was that I don't think this rebuilt alternator was rebuilt to the highest standards of quality control. It was rebuilt be a company called Sentry Gold. Never heard of them. The guy who put it on probably got the cheapest thing he could find.

That's what I was thinking about the accurancy, but I always think that it would be "on it's own scale." I'm not sure if this makes sense or is correct, but I imagine that although the measuring device may not accurately reflect the true voltage, two sources of imformation would be accurate in relation to each other.

New alternator is in and seems to be holding. The volt meter is reading a little high (closer to 15 than 14, although all I have to go off of is that it's between 12 and 16. My eyes aren't doing well today, had stitches taken out), but the needle is steady and isn't pegging every time I rev. I snapped the head off of one of the rusty old bolts that holds the alt on, but it seems to be ok. I think someone said it here, but yes, my old alt (less than 6 months old) was a reman unit. This new one is a brnd new hitachi unit, so hopefully I get a little more life out of it. I also forgot to mention that the kid testing my car at O'reilly's siad something about bad diodes in the alt throwing the same code on his machine as a fucked battery. I will also say that I have no idea what that machine is, if he was correct in what he said, or the symptoms of bad diodes are.

How would I know if it's cooked? Nothing is coming out of it, it doesn't make any noise, it's just drained.

Y'all were right. Internal regulator. I just ordered a whole new alternator, because they said they could have it here by 3 pm today.

I had it tested at oreilly's. They told me it was the battery., they were wrong.

If the battery is cooked, then something is cooking it. Gone through 2 today. I will add to my symptoms: At idle, the volt meter bounces around close to 16, pegged with the pedal down. Symptomatic of a dying voltage regularator? Also, my alternator is new. Is there any way I can test the regulator without a volt meter? Are there any more common regulators that will work fine in this car (or a 280z, most things seem to be the same)? I'm imagining this part will have to be ordered, which means waiting, which means missing class, etc.

It's a 79 810. Where the hell did they put the voltage regulators on these? It's external, I know that.

Okay, so I need some help. Never had much by way of electrical problems with my cars, so I know next to nothing about troubleshooting this stuff. Today, my car wouldn't start. I got a jump and got going again. After the jump, the car was behaving a little strangely. The volt meter was pegged at 16, the door beep was going super fast, and the idle was shitty. It died when I got to my girlfriend's school. I got another jump and went home. At home, I replaced the battery terminals, charged up a much newer battery, threw in that battery, and started it up. Ran great, volt meter looked good, door beep was the correct speed. I thought it was fixed. About an hour ago, I went out to get cigarettes. The car drove fine there. When I got into the parking lot, it started to die. I flicked the lights off and was able to keep it going. I got home by keeping the revs above 1000. When I was in the parking lot and the car was acting up, it was exhibiting the same problems as earlier today: pegged volt meter, fast door beep, crap idle. So, what this is telling me that something is draining the battery, the alternator is working overtime to compensate (No clue about the door beep). Whatever it is, it can drain the battery in just a couple miles, even while diving 40 mph. So where do I start?

Not in reference to the carpet. One item listing is just 810 DR GR.

If anyone needs 240 parts, I'm cleaning out what I've got left. It's cheap, what I can't get rid of is getting thrown away/going to the scrap yard. Email at trptrptrptrptrp@gmail.com.