Possible hosed voltage regulator?
Gary McCormick
San José, CA
Roman Rist wrote:
> Hi,Folks.
> Somthing strange happened this morning. My 66 has been running fine and
> with no electrical problems. Sarts right up, then out of the blue, the
> Car starts running like crap, all perfomance gone, sputtering, missing,
> backfiring etc. My ammeter at the same time went into a full (hard
> right) Charge.
> The only thing unusual I noticed prior was the ammeter was fogged a bit
> when I got into the car. (sometimes when it is damp in the AM it will
> do that on the gauges) When the meter pegged hard it fogged up more. I
> got it back home and at idle the meter read normal. any rpm over 2000
> produced the hard right charge. I went out a bit later, started it and
> same thing minus the fogged gauge. I shut it off and felt the
> alternator, It was hotter than the valve cover. Weird! I have no Idea
> what is going on any Ideas????
>
> Thanks,
> Roman Rist
>
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