[RICK LAKE]

Tony Radford Tony Couple of questions about your system. Does your car run under drive crank pulley? What power componets are in the car? FI, Radio, how many coolant fans, MSD ignition, Blower motor for heater, head lights, electric fuel pump? All these have drains on the charging system. Heaviest loads are at idle with these systems running. Get a cheap volt meter and check the charging system at idle and at 2,000 rpms. Both should be within 1 volt of each other. If not, you could have a charging issue. With all the power things on in the car at idle you want to see about 12.8-13.2 volts at the battery. Anything less and the battery is not getting a good charge. At idle with the normal power units on, ( ECU,ignition,coolant fan, fuel pump ) you are using about 20-50 amps at idle. Take the ALT to a pepboys or Autozone for an ALT test. This should test the diodes, bridges, and total output of th Alt. Tony send me a private e-mail with number and good time to call you about this, too much to type. What gauge are you running for the charging system? Volt or Ampage? Lets go through the basics before we start looking for problems Rick L.