I’ve been having some minor OD/lockup quirks start showing up lately so figured I would start with an AC test.

 

With truck at idle and minimal electrical load I got 0.053v between battery ground and alternator charge post. Then I decided to turn as much stuff in as I could (max a/c, high beam lights, mirror heaters, etc...) on the test also at idle speed I got 0.1xx volts with constant up and down fluctuation. 

 

So safe to assume that I have diode problems in my alternator likely causing my OD/lockup problems??? 

 

The alternator is only about 5000 miles old and functioning fine so I was thinking I would just install new diode and do the w-t ground mod while I’m at it. 

We got a unit of studs that has a cancer warning label on it from breathing the wood sawdust. It was amazing. In 40 yrs I've never seen that before.

 

 

1 hour ago, JAG1 said:

We got a unit of studs that has a cancer warning label on it from breathing the wood sawdust. It was amazing. In 40 yrs I've never seen that before.

 

 

I see them out this way a lot, especially on treated wood and manufactured wood. I see cancer warnings from Cali on almost everything nowadays. Bout sick of it.

On 4/2/2019 at 8:12 AM, JAG1 said:

Dripley found another set of wires that are soldered together with melted plastic (what a thing to do) in the wire harness. I think he said its down by the ECM?

There is also one close to PCM I found, doing fuse install for alternator fieldwire that fried Mike's pcm. Same plastic crimp connection.