Not Charging 521

[banzai510(hainz)]

Driving to my GF house I notice my alternator/Cig lighter/Battery cker was reading low. drove around with lights on I was reading 9volts.

Just goes to show one should buy one of these or get a in car volt meter.

They work

the truck idiot light did not even detect it.Meaning I would have drove till the battery goes dead

will swap alternator 2morow

 

It works

http://www.equus.com/Product/Detail/9D1F54B4-F1D3-4C67-827E-91FE755F3483

[Guest 510kamikazifreak]

The dummy light doesnt read until its way to late(no starty)

And then there is the oil light(should be a chuck engine light) :lol: :blink:

[wayno]

My 521 has had the ignition on for the last year and was charging fine, as 510freak stated, by the time I realized it wasn't charging anymore it was to late almost, I had to push start it and everytime I stepped on the brakes the radio would die and the turn signals would quit, lucky it wasn't dark, I would have been walking. I changed the alt. and the voltage regulator, and it still wouldn't charge, so I gave up and used an internally regulated alt from a 1980 720 truck and used jumpers on the regulator plug to make it work. It's the first time in over a year that the charge light has been out while it's running. I put a volt meter in the truck the next day.

[banzai510(hainz)]

I changed the alt. and the voltage regulator, and it still wouldn't charge,

 

something had to be bad on that one!

 

well still got to fix this myself. update 2morrow

[ggzilla]

The charge light will normally come on before the engine is started, and afterwards if the alternator is not charging. It is a good system. But a voltage gauge is even better.

[banzai510(hainz)]

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!

well I changed the alternator NO fix

Changed the VR,still no fix.

I looked at the fuse to the left and it was burnt,

swapped another popped again.

I felt like Lt Dan telling Forrest Gum on the hospital bad floor." What Am I going to do now"????????

 

2wires from fuse box. cleaned, popped fuse again.

 

to make a long story short the blu wire with whiet strip would pop the fuse. It was a sending unit wire in a round about way /to the dash. So I disconnected that still popped fuse. disconneted that sender wire and the then removed the dash harness and then it charged fine. I reconnected everything then it worked fine.Believe high resisitnace connection in back of dash.

No idiot light came on.

I call it FM, Fucking Magic

 

lucky for my voltage indicator