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Old 12-17-2006, 10:41 AM
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Have an electrical gremlin in the car. Alternator is fine, just rebuilt last week, but battery went stone dead yesterday. I crtanked car and went inside. When I came out, the engine was stumbling and when I sat in the driver's seat I noticed the voltmeter crashing down. The engine quit and the batterywas dead.
I pulled the alternator and took it to Autozone, it checked out ok at 13.8 VDC.

I chased down a short to the three unswitched power terminals terminals marked 30 unnder the relay plate. They read ~.5 ohms on a DMM.

Ant ideas??
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