pubenemy
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- 97 mouintaneer
Bare with me this will be a long post. I searched extensively and tried most everything I could find. This is on a 97 mountaineer awd 5.0 - It sat for a year bacause transmission went dead. I finally got a used trans. installed. Put in a new battery and after 1.5 hour drive the abs light came on, seat belt light, various lights on dash came on, voltage gauge dropped, tachometer stopped, speedometer stopped and finally vehicle died. My wife was driving it to me to start using for work as I work 2 hours away from home and stay here during week. I drove the 30 miles to where she stopped. Ran jumper cables and charged battery for awhile and jumped mountaineer. Drove the 30 miles to hotel, same symptoms happened as I made it into hotel parking lot. Windows were working at this point.
So now.
Windows don't work, interior lights dont work. Headlights do. Battery reads 12.5v and stays there over night after i charge it. Terminal with nut on alternator reads 12.5 also with vehicle off or running. Alternator has two wires going to it, one reads 12.5v also, other reads like 1.4v or so. Checked all fuses with multimeter. Checked voltage drain it is not draining more than the small amount it should. Now normally if I read 12v at battery with it on or off I'd just say its the alternator and replace it, but the odds things like windows and lights not working and the many problems Ive read about on the forum has me wondering. Tonight I hope to get it to an autostore to check the whole system. In the mean time anyone have any ideas or thoughts? The megafuse or whatever is fine checked with multimeter. Grounds seem fine via mm too. Am I just overthinking this and its prolly the alternator? I really hope so as a 120 mile tow to house will be expensive! The windows and lights not working and odd behavior of gauges and gauge lights has me wondering. When I turn key to on position with mounty not running the batt light, check engine light, check gauges light comes on. What would cause the windows and lights not to work when it has plenty of voltage via jumper cables?
Thanks to any that read and reply!
-Mike
So now.
Windows don't work, interior lights dont work. Headlights do. Battery reads 12.5v and stays there over night after i charge it. Terminal with nut on alternator reads 12.5 also with vehicle off or running. Alternator has two wires going to it, one reads 12.5v also, other reads like 1.4v or so. Checked all fuses with multimeter. Checked voltage drain it is not draining more than the small amount it should. Now normally if I read 12v at battery with it on or off I'd just say its the alternator and replace it, but the odds things like windows and lights not working and the many problems Ive read about on the forum has me wondering. Tonight I hope to get it to an autostore to check the whole system. In the mean time anyone have any ideas or thoughts? The megafuse or whatever is fine checked with multimeter. Grounds seem fine via mm too. Am I just overthinking this and its prolly the alternator? I really hope so as a 120 mile tow to house will be expensive! The windows and lights not working and odd behavior of gauges and gauge lights has me wondering. When I turn key to on position with mounty not running the batt light, check engine light, check gauges light comes on. What would cause the windows and lights not to work when it has plenty of voltage via jumper cables?
Thanks to any that read and reply!
-Mike
