Date:         Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:00:45 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark Drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Mark Drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Stuck in Alturas with electrical mystery
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
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First, just work on stretching the brush leads. That could get you
hundreds or thousands of more miles in a pinch. If the problem is the
brush/reg pack, it is replaceable. It can be serviced without removing
the alternator but unhook the battery ground first.

Mark

Don Hanson wrote:

> Aha!  It seems to be the alternator.  I get about 11.5 amps when the motor
> is on from the main wire on the rear.  A little  less from the blue wire
> (small).  No Juice coming out, I guess.
>   Didn't realize Bus Boys was in Redding,  I may have to back-track there
> for an alternator..Alturas is on 395 hwy, which is in the next valley over
> from Redding and a bit north..but if I have to order, it would probably be
> from  them anyhow, and then I would wait and pay someone to deliver it to
> me?
>   Thanks,
>   Don Hanson
>