1984 Subaru Gl "change alt car back" Questions

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...and cables and alternator now when you connect everything back up there is no power not even the headlights come on either recharge the battery or you left one of the wires off the batt. or the

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...bolted to the starter. also has two smaller wires that plug in alt. one goes to charge lite or bat guage in dash, other wire goes to ign and should be hot when ign is on if it is not change ign ...

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...batt.remove air inlet tube over alt.remove serpintine belt.remove the alt bolts 2 in frt,2 or 3 in bracket on back.disconnect power wire + plug.change alt.reverse procedure to install.easy

...back and forth.already changed and cheked alt. and has all power to alt. and field wire is excited by key sounds like the excited power my be falling off while in operation because that is all that ...

...change the alt out with battery NEG lug connected or BOOM bad alt 2 bad fuse 5 bad check lamp 6 (no it glows) remember this fact a bad battery can make the ALT go nuts. for sure 1 cell in the battery ...

...hot lead into the red wire on the back side of the alt. , as the car is running, you should get a reading of 14.2 or better if its less, the alt. is bad. But if its 14.2 or better change the

...change so its back to original pcm car runs fine no light on with this alt but i swapped one of the others in to see if they were bad , voltages were the same but batt and brake light was on dash. i ...

...alt true? Change alt will solve? check voltage manually with volt meter check at the battery and check off the charge wire coming off the alternator should be 13-14 volts +/- anything over 14 volts ...

...Replaced the battery-no change-put the old battery back in till the alt toasted. Replaced the alt-now all good. Back in Focus. If all checks out ok i would bet the alternator has an internal

...car honks fast, normal. bcm act on mine. if you drive with ALT off line (dead) the battery drains out fast even 1/2 hour and now battery voltage goes way too low and which computer fails first nobody ...

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