there are no buts, soldier.. .get it checked. the history on this is amazingly strong. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

and it's not creating enough charge either...


still points to the alternator. all of it. normal operation as explained above -- fp switches to alternator current, which you apparently don't have enough of. any number of poor running symptoms, including AT problems, can be attributed to the alternator.



i for one am looking forward to hearing the outcome...

hth
good luck

Well, it'll probably be tomorrow or sometime next week before I get to it as I'm at work now trying to get a job out. On the flip side, I got my other car running and finally got the A/C charged in it so I now have A/C in a vehicle after about 2 years of doing without. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cyclops.gif" alt="" />

Stop using that thick oil in the winter. It is rattling because the oil isn't flowing. Try 5w50 or 5w30 and you should be fine in OK winters.

Oops, <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif" alt="" /> I meant summer, not winter. I use 10w30 in the winter.

Okay, do you decide how the crow is prepared, or do I have any say in it? (no crow smilie? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />)

aye, yer a good man Larry... you could have just vanished into the internet...

A nice Cabernet goes pretty good with crow, don't ask how _I_ know! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

I guess I didn't realize the alt. was so low in the chassis, funny thing is, when I looked under the hood, I didn't see anything amiss, funny thing is, it knocked two other belts off their pulleys as well, but didn't break them. I only had one belt still on and that was the power steering pump.

I'm replacing all the belts, they were cogged Gates and were pretty cracked at the cogs. I recall replacing the water pump studs when I got the truck in spring '04, but I don't recall replacing any belts or seeing anything wrong with them.

I had to post, someone down the line will need to search their problem and this will confirm or eliminate it for them as well. I don't eat crow very often, near never, but I can take it if I have to (is there any humble pie to kill the taste? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" /> )

<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/mrt.gif" alt="" /> Mr. T say, I pity da Fool!

Glad you got it figured out.

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You might check once you get it back together, how well your A/C belt adjuster pulley is lined up with the other pulleys. Mine was out of line about 1/4 of an inch which was enough to roll the belts over and throw them periodically. Once I spaced it out that little bit, I haven't had a problem since.

so that means you didn't have a working water pump, either. i guess you didn't keep driving enough to notice any overheating problems. (?)

and i guess the same reason yu didn't notice, or miss the a/c.

anyway. . .glad you got it fixed. and i'm glad yu went searching for that alt. . .

good luck

I'll check the A/C idler spacing.

The A/C doesn't work, so I wouldn't have noticed it. When it popped, I was only about a 1/2 mile from my destination. Now I did notice the radiator bubbling a bit, but the temp wasn't hot. I'll need to make sure I burp the system as well.