Recent content by Mikes270dart

no hotels in mind, never been there. Just thought it would be a good idea to all stay in the same place.

Alternator had an internal short, so replaced alternator, battery and voltage regulator. All good now. Brandon, have you looked for a hotel near Carlisle?

14.1 was as high as it went

Didn't have time to properly troubleshoot alternator so I bought a rebuild, now the charging system works the way it should. Thanks again.

Ok, touch probes together no resistance. Put a probe on each male tab on the alternator no resistance. From the tab where the blue wire went to case no resistance and same for green. As a side note after giving the tab where the blue wire goes, plugged in in an put key to run. It does get...

Somehow determined the field wires are 'good' What was the test or check ? Used an ohm meter on the wire to check You disconnected the field wires from the alternator. Disconnected the green and blue wires from the alt Connected a test light between the blue wire's field connection and...

Seems that my previous post had some errors. Also some reading from last night make no sense. with Blue and green wires disconnected from the alt both post read ground with test light connected to + side of battery. With key on blue wire has power and green stays ground. Both the green and...

Mattax asked: Autometer gages. Are those in addition or instead of? 2 gauges installed Water temp and oil pressure. Not sure what you mean here by "works properly". Up till that point I never checked for proper power on blue wire. Cant do anything this weekend, will start Monday unwrapping...

1971 Plymouth duster 340. Stock. Only changes a set of autometer gauges. Everything worked fine till 5pm Saturday

On Saturday I annihilated my battery, it was a smoking leaking mess. Replaced the battery and checked the charging system and it was pumping out over 17v. So I thought it was the VR, bought on and installed being careful about getting good ground. Still same problem. The blue and green field...

We were right beside them. Not many showed up

Duster never made it home under its own power. I was passing a truck on the 401 in Cambridge and the car lost all power, would idle but nothing more. took a long time to get off the hwy. Battery was totally cooked, had steam coming out of cracks in the case. Put a battery in on Sunday but...

Ill be there Saturday, not sure about Sunday. 3.91 gears are a pain on the hwy.

Thanks, going to need this information in about a month

After Cannucky picked up the banner from you he gave it back to the guy who had it made, not sure who that was. Cannucky sold his car, I tried contacting him but was unsuccessful.