Car is overcharging. Please help!!

OK so we spent 4 hours on it Sunday and got the problem solved.

Here's a list of items we dealt with and how we corrected them.

1. Fuseable link was corroded and frayed at point where it entered the bulkhead connector. That slot on the connector was melted from the heat so it was useless. We used a spare slot in the connector and drilled a hole through it and the on on the firewall mounted part of the connector. Ran our new #8 wire from the relay through them and left enough slack so that the connector can be pulled off and away for maintenance. About 8-12" extra will do.

2. Sanded the firewall to bare steel where the ground strap attaches to the firewall. Clean both ends of ground strap.

3. Same as above where the voltage regulator attaches. Replaced bad wire from it to the ballast resistor.

4. Ran new #8 from our new alternator to the battery stud on the starter.

5. Cut the old alternator black wire back to the bulkhead and taped off

6. Cut loose ammeter inside and soldered wires back together bypassing the gauge. Installed Voltmeter gauge.

So we fired it up and voila......voltage at battery 14+....held at low RPM and at higher RPM. We were using one of my old VR's so we were concerned that it may not hold up but it has so far and its working great.

Hope this and the info listed in the other thread helps.....it helped us.

Mop