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Hey folks,
It seems I’ve gotten myself into a situation. About 2 weeks ago my alternator started going out. It would charge fine for a while then drop voltage to 12.3-12.4 and sometimes completely off to around 11v. Monitoring with the gauge on my edge. When charging it would bounce from 13-14v. This started when I was about 300 miles from home. I limped the truck home without replacing it and noticed that on the back of the alternator the clip which secured the plug had broken and would not click and secure. Figured this was my problem and engineered a zip tie fix but didn’t drive the truck again until yesterday. On that drive the truck started giving me the 30 second dead pedal every mile or so and throwing a bunch of codes. No surging, coughing, breaking up, just dead pedal. A couple glow plug/heater grid faults which were present before, a companion module fault, and everyone’s favorite: P0216. I replaced the alternator and cleared the codes today hoping I didn’t procrastinate for too long. Well, my voltages are nice and steady but it gave me dead pedal 500 feet from my house so I assume I’ve fried either the Vp,ecm, or pcm because I didn’t immediately replace the alternator. I don’t trust driving it long enough for the codes to come back but I could if necessary. My VP only has 39k on it and has had 15-17psi from a FASS the whole time. Alternator is just a duralast but I did have them test it before I took it and it checked good twice. I should also note while unsure of its relation to this issue that my truck has a particular talent for corroding terminals heavily and often. Where do I start with this?
As always, thank you guys for being the most helpful cummins forum out there.