Buddy2
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- Oct 7, 2013
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Helsinki,
Europe
I just wanted to create thread about this common issue with these cars. This is a problem that will create alot of frustration untill you really get problem pointed out in to altenator (having volt meter in dash is a great idea). Melting altenators has bring alot of idle and tuning issues to me once it starts to burn. I do use head shield on my downpipe but i still managed to fry another altenator in 2 years. This time i will be shielding new altenator better and installing volt meter in dash.
My findings on my current altenator is that it was charging battery enought to keep my car going for a long time but slowly i got issues with my tune even my battery light did not pop up yet. it was still charging some while i was driving but totally dead ad idle in the end and finally battery light came on at idle.
I opened this altenator to actually try to pinpoint the problem with heat and if its actually possible to fix old ones instead of buying new.
This is what i found inside altenator. Some solders are actually melted from the heat and voltage regulator has bad connection on other side. What im going to try is re solder all connections and try if it starts working with old regulator. I really dont know much about electricity so these are just my ideas. I noticed when you solder altenator coil wires in make sure they are enough deep or your cooling blade will hit that coil wire. I just used small scredriver to bend them down once i noticed this.
I basicly just resoldered every connection and tried the altenator whitout changing new voltage regulator. Now car is charging 13.2v at iddle or cruise so the voltageregulator is mostlikely toast i think. I will try to put in new regulator as these are around 30$ but i allready have new altenator on the way so this is just experiement.
In europe its pretty hard to find these altenators allready so its pretty important to keep them from burning in future for me.
My findings on my current altenator is that it was charging battery enought to keep my car going for a long time but slowly i got issues with my tune even my battery light did not pop up yet. it was still charging some while i was driving but totally dead ad idle in the end and finally battery light came on at idle.
I opened this altenator to actually try to pinpoint the problem with heat and if its actually possible to fix old ones instead of buying new.
This is what i found inside altenator. Some solders are actually melted from the heat and voltage regulator has bad connection on other side. What im going to try is re solder all connections and try if it starts working with old regulator. I really dont know much about electricity so these are just my ideas. I noticed when you solder altenator coil wires in make sure they are enough deep or your cooling blade will hit that coil wire. I just used small scredriver to bend them down once i noticed this.
I basicly just resoldered every connection and tried the altenator whitout changing new voltage regulator. Now car is charging 13.2v at iddle or cruise so the voltageregulator is mostlikely toast i think. I will try to put in new regulator as these are around 30$ but i allready have new altenator on the way so this is just experiement.
In europe its pretty hard to find these altenators allready so its pretty important to keep them from burning in future for me.
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