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Old 10-03-2015, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by maxhifi View Post
Thanks Eric - new alternator gives 14.1 V at idle and 14.4 revved up... All seems normal now. It seems odd to me that the olds alternator and old regulator both went bad at once, but it's nice to have the truck back to normal.
All the Fords me and the entire family had years ago, whenever you had
charging system problems, you ended up changing all three to finally get a
few years peace out of the system..... Battery, Alt, and regulator. You couldn't
use yer brain, or a meter to fix it, you just had to replace it all, or you would
be replacing each part over and over......
1972 - 86 If the battery was 2 year old or less it usually was ok.

Our Honda's are much better, and also odd in that we have 6 honda's in the
family. 1986 - 1996, Each Alt. went at around 170K miles, then with 300K to
420K on those cars presently, the second Alt. in each car, A Honda Factory
rebuild has not had any troubles....

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