Here's what happened....
Drove 35 miles on highway daytime 80 drgrees, ABS and right blimker come on and normally running 170 all the time, my coolant temps go up to about 210 at red lights. I reach my destination and check my engine...alternator is practically glowing hot.
Car sits for a few hours and I get back on highway and drive at night 35 miles, about 65 degrees out, car runs at 172 coolant temp the whole way.
I stop for a beer and come out and start the car and it runs like crap and fuel pressure drops to 0 and stalls. I coast into gas station and let car cool for 15 minutes then I get about 2 miles and same thing.
I park car overnight and next morning I start car and fp is fine....ABS light still on but blinkers working fine...I drive 5 miles to my house and car is running fine. I turn on my headlights, bright lights, ac, fan hi, flashers on and go wot, fuel pressure instantly starts to drop, right signal comes on and alternator starts chirping, I turn everything off except for car and fuel pressure started going up to 20 from 10.
I pull alternator and it chirps just hand spinning it. Tested ok but Advance doesn't have the load and can't make the alternator hot. Since car has 110 k and had been spun to ****, I picked up a new alternator.
Based on the way things cut out and the ABS light and the load test I did.
No codes of course.
Alternater comes in tomorrow, what do y'all think?
Drove 35 miles on highway daytime 80 drgrees, ABS and right blimker come on and normally running 170 all the time, my coolant temps go up to about 210 at red lights. I reach my destination and check my engine...alternator is practically glowing hot.
Car sits for a few hours and I get back on highway and drive at night 35 miles, about 65 degrees out, car runs at 172 coolant temp the whole way.
I stop for a beer and come out and start the car and it runs like crap and fuel pressure drops to 0 and stalls. I coast into gas station and let car cool for 15 minutes then I get about 2 miles and same thing.
I park car overnight and next morning I start car and fp is fine....ABS light still on but blinkers working fine...I drive 5 miles to my house and car is running fine. I turn on my headlights, bright lights, ac, fan hi, flashers on and go wot, fuel pressure instantly starts to drop, right signal comes on and alternator starts chirping, I turn everything off except for car and fuel pressure started going up to 20 from 10.
I pull alternator and it chirps just hand spinning it. Tested ok but Advance doesn't have the load and can't make the alternator hot. Since car has 110 k and had been spun to ****, I picked up a new alternator.
Based on the way things cut out and the ABS light and the load test I did.
No codes of course.
Alternater comes in tomorrow, what do y'all think?
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