vigman
Motor head!!!!
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2001
- Messages
- 3,471
- Location
- Valencia, CA,USA
- Corvette
- 88 Convert ( SOLD ) /1973 coupe 4 speed/1964 Vert!
Well my orig Delco finally gave up the ghost. So I did the Lazy thing ( or so I thought ) and sent the car out for service. They put in A Pep Boys remanufactured ALT... and I was not aware of that.
Last Thursday I lost the ALT ( red light came on )
and since I was a few blocks from the place that put in it.. I cruised over dropped the car off.
( after 45 min, about ther amount of time to exchange it myself ) I got a loaner and off to work I went.That evening the light came on again...off to the shop I went to drop it off again!
Friday I picked the car up in the morning, Drove to work ( everything was fine )
On my way home...( HOT DAY ) the entire instrument panel went on the blink.. Just Garbage and I was on the freeway (Bumper to bumper). I took me a few minutes to get over to the side to shut it off.
Popped the hood.. and Boil over time
tried to restart not enough juice in the battery
but the panels came back on...
EGAD Water Temp 266!!!!!!!
So I let the ign on to use what's left of the batt and the fans came on.....
20 Min later the flat bed showed
40 min later off we went home
45 min later my baby was back in the driveway
15 min later battery on charge
20 min later Dead Alternator in my grasp.....
And the reason for failure
The bushing on the back of the ATL output stud had softened,Moved,Shorted to ground, melted,and blasted the diode pack ( not to mention the Output wire got a bit crispy.)
The next day ( Sat )
4 hrs to get to the shop, Calmy explain my situation, get him to go to Rydel get A DELCO reman.Get it home, Install it, Replace the crispy bit of Alt output wiring, check the engine out for Cracked heads ( So far everything ok!!!!)
The moral of the story.....
So $150.00 ( money paid out fo inital job)
3 Alts ( 2 Pep Boys & 1 Delco)
7 hrs ( Of time wasted )
It dosen't pay to be Lazy in the first place!
Mike
( Another rut in the road of the Corvette life)
Last Thursday I lost the ALT ( red light came on )
and since I was a few blocks from the place that put in it.. I cruised over dropped the car off.
( after 45 min, about ther amount of time to exchange it myself ) I got a loaner and off to work I went.That evening the light came on again...off to the shop I went to drop it off again!
Friday I picked the car up in the morning, Drove to work ( everything was fine )
On my way home...( HOT DAY ) the entire instrument panel went on the blink.. Just Garbage and I was on the freeway (Bumper to bumper). I took me a few minutes to get over to the side to shut it off.
Popped the hood.. and Boil over time
tried to restart not enough juice in the battery
but the panels came back on...
EGAD Water Temp 266!!!!!!!
So I let the ign on to use what's left of the batt and the fans came on.....
20 Min later the flat bed showed
40 min later off we went home
45 min later my baby was back in the driveway
15 min later battery on charge
20 min later Dead Alternator in my grasp.....
And the reason for failure
The bushing on the back of the ATL output stud had softened,Moved,Shorted to ground, melted,and blasted the diode pack ( not to mention the Output wire got a bit crispy.)
The next day ( Sat )
4 hrs to get to the shop, Calmy explain my situation, get him to go to Rydel get A DELCO reman.Get it home, Install it, Replace the crispy bit of Alt output wiring, check the engine out for Cracked heads ( So far everything ok!!!!)
The moral of the story.....
So $150.00 ( money paid out fo inital job)
3 Alts ( 2 Pep Boys & 1 Delco)
7 hrs ( Of time wasted )
It dosen't pay to be Lazy in the first place!
Mike
( Another rut in the road of the Corvette life)