I make a point to keep the connection clean and filled with electrical grease at the alternator after having a troublesome drive home on a long trip with flickering alternator light once. It does pay to go through that weak link once in a while. I keep a small diamond file on board for the purpose, you never know when you are going to need it on a 30+ year-old car. Jim On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 10:10 PM Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote: > The Diesel alternator harness is a plug in with undersized wiring. Over > time > the slide on connectors loose tier fit and with corrosion become fairly > high > resistance points. Added to this is the smaller size (~70 amps) of the > alternator so that especially at low speeds, idling you get a low voltage > situation. > > Dennis > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of > Jim Felder > Sent: Friday, January 1, 2016 9:38 AM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: Riddle me this about Vanagon dash wiring gremlin > > More discussion on this? > > Jim > > > > Being an 83 the harness from the alternator is the first thing that needs > to be upgraded > > Dennis > |
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