Thread: Embarrassment

He keeps sneezing all over my screen

Well been out working on that peice of **** crapoyta allday today took the alternator out again.it was only charging at 11.8 i have checked all the wiring & plugs between the voltage reg & battery all seem fine but an auto sparky checked it & tested the alt again today said it was fine but its cold & not upto speed doing the bench test..So while it was out i looked for where all the power steering fluid was coming from & bugger me there was a bolt missing from the bottom of the pump so i gave it all a clean up & found a bolt to fit , that was that job done. So i pulled the alternator apart to see how it was & the bushes where, Well the amount of **** & grime & fluid in it wasn't funny & the bushes where next to nothing left so went back to the auto sparky & got some new ones $8 for the two.. So i cleaned it all up that was a nightmare so much **** in it, put the new bushes in it & all soldered up , Put it all back together Then fitted bac in the car.. I wasn't expecting much but after it was in & all hooked up it was time to start it.. & it did start & was charging but down a little but with the new voltage regulator we got it is adjustable so i let the car warm up & put the multimeter on it , it was 13.5 right on the bottom side of what it said it should be in the book. The book said it should be regutated voltage 13.5 to 15.1 volts..
SO inside the new voltage reg is a thing like a nob thingy that can be turned , So i set the tacho on 2000 rpm with the hand throtle nob on the dash & went & played wound it down first it went to 12.9 so slowly worked it up till it was on the 14.2 mark , left it for i minute & it dropped a little so very slowly wound it up again till it was on the 15.23 & left it & was good so i turned the hand throtle right down & off & the volts are now 14.19 to 14.2 so it was all good ..
So i turned the car off & the volts started to drop didn't leave it on long enuff to see how low But waited 20 mins & tryed to start it & it started. All this time the dash light stayed off even after some real heavy reving upto about 5k to 5.5k & still stayed off it wasn't doing this before it would allways come on & stop charging . So i put the car away for now & will go & try to start it after tea & if ok fatty going to take it for a drive for a while in our street & see how it goes & if ok will take it a bit ferther & see how it goes ..But if we are lucky it mite be ok & I CAN HAVE MY CAR BACK...

THANKS again ti all how gave advise I will let use all know how it goes ..

THANK to Drifter for the workshop manual very helpfull & an interesting read..

Hey Aus 1 more sleep , Day off tomorow are you going to pick up the freelander..

That's better news on the 4Runner. I would have a talk to that sparky, though. Strikes me that the original regulator may have been OK...

Good to hear you are getting some use out of that manual.

Originally Posted by Fifth Columnist

He keeps sneezing all over my screen

Impossible to wipe the inside, too.

aye up Jas

Hey Banj, drove past your old house this arvo, looks like the new owners have moved in, lights on and three cars parked out front!!!

Yeah Karen said there was some movement over there today..