doonze
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- May 16, 2009
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- City, State
- Fayetteville, Ar
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '93 X Sport
Ok, so.... today I'm sitting at a light...... and all of a sudden my A/C blower motor starts blowing much softer, and my blinker starts blinking much slower. I glance at the volt gauge, and it's down below the N in normal....uh oh..... Just for a little history, since I bought it the needle has always stayed at about M to A in normal.
So I look up, and what do I see... O'Reilly's right across the street. Well, that's good at least. Pull in, they test it up. 12.6 volts with the truck off.... 12.3v with the truck started...not good. I didn't feel like just buying what they had without price shopping a bit so I headed home and hit the internet.
Anyway, Autozone had the best deal, so I buy it on line and go to pick it up. When I was about 4 blocks away all of a sudden the voltage needle jumped up to about O in normal. Hmmm.... So when I get there I have them test it again. (they used a tester on wheels, much better then the little hand held thing O'Reilly's had). Other then the manager being a little bit of a di*k, the tester showed it was running around 12 volts and 3 amps max. (that's a bad thing)
Guy told me it was fried so I took the new one home and threw it in, 30 min job, cake. Start her up....needle hanging out at about O, almost exactly where it was just before with the old one. A rev brought it up for a bit, maybe about M, but after driving it back to Autozone to get my core back It settled back to around between O/M. That's 2 letters lower then it stayed at before all this started...
So when I got back to Autozone I have them test the new one.... 13.5 volts and 7.5 amps....much better and it seems to pass the test....so I guess it's ok....
So I have 2 questions.... One, where does you voltage needle sit? And second anyone got a handy Multi Meter and can tell me what kinda volts they push with the engine running??
Thanks!
So I look up, and what do I see... O'Reilly's right across the street. Well, that's good at least. Pull in, they test it up. 12.6 volts with the truck off.... 12.3v with the truck started...not good. I didn't feel like just buying what they had without price shopping a bit so I headed home and hit the internet.
Anyway, Autozone had the best deal, so I buy it on line and go to pick it up. When I was about 4 blocks away all of a sudden the voltage needle jumped up to about O in normal. Hmmm.... So when I get there I have them test it again. (they used a tester on wheels, much better then the little hand held thing O'Reilly's had). Other then the manager being a little bit of a di*k, the tester showed it was running around 12 volts and 3 amps max. (that's a bad thing)
Guy told me it was fried so I took the new one home and threw it in, 30 min job, cake. Start her up....needle hanging out at about O, almost exactly where it was just before with the old one. A rev brought it up for a bit, maybe about M, but after driving it back to Autozone to get my core back It settled back to around between O/M. That's 2 letters lower then it stayed at before all this started...
So when I got back to Autozone I have them test the new one.... 13.5 volts and 7.5 amps....much better and it seems to pass the test....so I guess it's ok....
So I have 2 questions.... One, where does you voltage needle sit? And second anyone got a handy Multi Meter and can tell me what kinda volts they push with the engine running??
Thanks!