found the problem...

[whitehorse]

So I come home and search wires like mad from the alternator to the voltage regulator and to the solenoid. Well turns out that something shorted out and melted a wire into....the big thick wire going to the solenoid....

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[Waystro]

The gifts just keep on giving with that truck.

 

[whitehorse]

Yep....but ready to start a fire with it.....

 

[icanfixall]

Thats a factory fuseable link. Better find out why it burned out. Now find any truck year in a wrecking yard and cut this out of the wire harness. Best to open up the harness and look at all the fuseable links we have in this area. Its nearly every wire hanging on the hot side of the fender mounted solenoid.

 

[whitehorse]

I would have not found it if I didn't put my hands on the wire....the wire melted into inside the sleeve but didn't burn the sleeve. Looked like nothing was wrong and then hey there's no wire right there....

 

[OLDBULL8]

Yep....but ready to start a fire with it.....

If you don't replace it with a fusible link of the same size, you possible won't have to start the fire, it'll start by itself. Fusible links are a special wire. The insulation is made so it won't burn, but the internal wire will "burn" apart.

 

[whitehorse]

Yes I'm trying to locate another one to replace it...dealer item or local auto parts?

 

[79jasper]

Parts stores have fusible link wire.

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