Thanks Mark,
Now you've got me scared the car is parked between my race car and the TR8.
Also now I'm humming the song "Industrial Disease" by Dire Straits.....GREAT
now I can't get the song out of my head!
Mike Munson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Hooper" <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
To: "'Mike Munson '" <fasttrs@mindspring.com>; <gatriumph@gatriumph.com>;
"'6pack list '" <6pack@autox.team.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 10:38 PM
Subject: RE: electrical grimlin
> Mike:
>
> I know what happened to your car. You parked it next to a car with
> Alternator Disease. Don't laugh it's true!!
>
> I first learned of AD at work a few years ago from great engineer called
> Mike Riley. He arrived one morning looking gloomy. Said he had parked in a
> lot overnight and when he arrived in the morning there was a tow truck
> giving the car beside his a boost. Seems the alternator had quit. Riley
said
> he was doomed for sure. Described the terrible contagion of Alternator
> Disease. Could wipe out an entire lot of cars in a week. I laughed at his
> joke.
>
> Next morning he came in cursing. Seems that half way home all the lights
on
> his dash on his brand new Olds 98 came on after the charging system quit.
> Crept into a garage on the last juice of the battery. They tested. Sure
> enough, dead alternator.
>
> I commiserated with his lousy luck, but pooh poohed the idea of AD. He
said,
> "don't laugh, you're next, I parked next to you all day yesterday". I gave
> him the raspberry and thought no more of it. That evening, 20 minutes into
> the drive home, my alternator quit.
>
> That week we lost 3 other alternators in the small parking lot of our
> office. All parked close to Riley's car that day. Damnedest thing I ever
> saw.
>
> Beware Alternator Disease. It is infectious, It is deadly to Alternators.
It
> jumps primarily within similar automobile lines. American to American,
> Japanese to Japanese etc, where it will kill the receiving alternator. It
> can jump across nationalities of cars, but is greatly reduced in strength.
> An American car with AD can usually only blow light bulbs in a Japanese or
> German machine and visa versa.
>
> The best protection is a minimum of one empty parking space between any
> infected car and the surrounding healthy machines.
>
> Take care, you have been warned!!
>
> Mark Hooper
> 72 TR6
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Munson
> To: gatriumph@gatriumph.com; 6pack list; fot@autox.team.net
> Sent: 08/05/02 9:58 PM
> Subject: electrical grimlin
>
> Listers,
>
> Had an interesting problem with my street TR-6 today.Drove it to work
> and the
> ignition light stayed on. The lights were dim., the alt. would only
> charge
> 11.5 volts. Driving home the AC worked but when I turned it off the alt.
> still
> only charged to 11 or 11.5 volts, ignition light still on.I shut the car
> off
> and the ignition light stayed on. I cranked it again the ignition light
> went
> off. So now the ignition light stays on when the key is off. I unplugged
> the
> alternator to keep the light from running the battery down.
>
> Anyone else have this problem?
> Is the alternator or the ignition switch at fault? How do I go about
> trouble
> shooting the alternator?
> Did this Lucas electrical system absorb some sort of gremlin from being
> parked
> in a General Motors parking lot?
> (we do use some Lucas parts on the vans we build there)
>
> Help!
>
> Mike Munson
> Snellville Ga.
> 70-6 racecar
> 73-6
> 80-8
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