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    Is it my alternator?

    I watched this guys video above a couple times and read some things here and there and I'm sort of confused about what happens to the other wires running from the voltage regulator particularly the wire that runs to the tach sensor. Will it still work if I just cap this wire off? What am I...
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    Is it my alternator?

    The alternator is off the truck. It was so rusty on the inside and when I took it apart this metal holding these springs in was broken also. Maybe that was part of the problem. Just going to swap for 3G following this video:
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    Is it my alternator?

    I just want to drop this here too because I was having electrical issues almost a year ago related to the regulator and alternator and @Nero you and I went back a forth a little about this isolator that someone installed. I'm pretty sure this is not a normal thing right? I want to do the 3G swap...
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    Is it my alternator?

    Wouldnt this not matter since I already jumped "F" (green/red) straight to battery positive and ground and got no charge? Guess now that I'm thinking about it I didn't accelerate the truck while touching the test wire but it should the volts should still jump up either way once the alternator...
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    Is it my alternator?

    Was just re-reading and re-watching swap videos. Seems very easy, only downside is that I'm just going to buy one on amazon or something and not go pick around a junk yard.
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    Is it my alternator?

    I removed F and used a test wire going straight to positive and got nothing then went to ground and still got nothing. Pretty certain it's the alternator at this point then, right? In the case that I don't have someone rebuild it are there any good aftermarket alternator recommendations?
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    Is it my alternator?

    My neighborhood mechanic told me today that if the battery light on the dash doesn't turn on when I turn the key on it won't charge. He said he's seen people replace the batteries, regulator and alternator and it was just a 50cent bulb. Apparently it needs this in order to excite the regulator...
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    Is it my alternator?

    I'm getting into this today. I'm about 95% sure the alternator is bad but I'm also confused by some wiring so maybe I can get some clarification. The "two wire plastic connector" only has one wire going into it. The wire going here would be "F" on the wire diagram BeastMaster sent although the...
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    Is it my alternator?

    Thanks for the above. Headed out of town this weekend and jumping into this next week. Will report back!
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    Is it my alternator?

    I wish it worked, haha. I went back and read the thread and it seemed like even after I replaced the voltage regulator the charging still wasn't very strong so I'm thinking that you're right in the fact that the alternator has shorted turns and is damaging the voltage regulator. I'm going to go...
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    Is it my alternator?

    Yeah when truck is on it doesn't increase above 12.2v and when accelerating it doesn't jump either.
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    Is it my alternator?

    Lately it seems like if I have a problem it's got to be electrical related. Truck wouldn't start the other day. I haven't been using it that much lately so I figured there must be some kind of short draining the batteries. Charged the batteries back up but it seemed like they wouldnt get much...
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    400 Miles and some off-road

    Looks nice there! Love the two tone color on that thing too.
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    400 Miles and some off-road

    Yeah around Jenner then north to Usal
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    400 Miles and some off-road

    haha no! and to be honest I thought about that a couple times. I've actually never paid attention to where the intake is in the last 3+ years or cleaned the engine air filter....
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