Interesting. Looking at the installation drawings on the GoWesty site, it looks like this product is made to work with the Waterboxer motors (the article on the product specifically states that it won't work with air-cooled vanagons). But what about diesels? I think they all have that "need to blip" issue--my certainly always has--but if I recall correctly, the diesels need an adjustable output voltage regulator. At least that has been mentioned. Jim On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Mark McCulley <markmcculley@gmail.com> wrote: > Ever since I replaced my alternator I've needed to blip the throttle after > starting to get the Alt light to go out. This happens about 50% of time. I > never had to do this with the old alternator. The new one was a Bosch > rebuild. I do have a solenoid in the circuit for cabin battery charging but > the problem persists even if I switch out that solenoid. > > Did I get a bum alternator? I see GoWesty makes a little harness to fix > this problem (http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=24031) but > would like to understand why I have a problem that never existed before > replacing the alternator. > > -Mark > > '87 Syncro Westy > FUNHAUS > |
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