Someone may get to this before me, I have been out of town for the last 3
days and have 450 new mail messages to read!
There is an open between the old alternator hot lead and the battery.
This circuit includes the connections to the ammeter, the ammeter itself,
and a connection at the fuse block. The circuit from the fuseblock to
connections at the starter where the hot lead connects to the battery
cable can't be the problem because tputting the fusebetween the battery
and the alternator made everything work correctlyu. A bad connection at
any of these can cause this problem. The 1/4" quick disconnects on
the back of my alternator had been overheated quite a bit before I
bought the car and would disconnect from time to time. I replaced
the connectors and things were fine. The alternator is the part
that usually plays fuse unfortunately.
Peace,
Pat
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Daniel Neuman wrote:
> Hello All,
> Went out to start the car the other day and nothing...turned the key on
> and nothing.. I mean nothing..the lights wouldn't work the emergency flashers
> wouldn't work, none of the gauges worked..I of course thought it was a dead
> batt but nope it was fulling charged and connected...Maybe a fuse?? nope
>checked
> the fuse panal and they were all good and all showing 0 Volts wiht the key
>on...
> all except for the horn. I was confused.... I have the GM one wire alt and I
> have it connedted straight to the batt and I have it connected thru a 35 amp
>fuse
> to the old alt hot wire. I checked this fuse and hey there is no fuse in the
> holder?? But in a new fuse and whamm-o everything is fine??
> Okay here is the weird part?? The car was working fine without a fuse
> on the alt-to-old hot wire line which I think is normal it would of just been
> running off the batt-which is also hooked into the alt.
> What would of happend to make this no longer be the case?? Its like some
> connection under the dash came loose or something?? I am confused as heck
> somebody illuminate me will ya??
> To recap..fuse in everything great fuse out nothing...
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel 69 2000
> SF CA
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