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Thanks for the great info! I'm going to read your past electrical posts, and use them as resources.

Thanks for this info! That sounds like a very clever solution, but I want to make sure that I understand it correctly. Did you put a high current diode in a wire path directly from your alternator to your battery, so the current would bypass the dash when the alternator voltage got to a certain...

Bingo! It's the higher amp alternators that fry the terminals. The original alternators were 35A, and the remans put out 55A minimum. So unless you are running your original alternator your terminals are probably overworked. I know someone who replaced his alternator with a reman, and a short...

I agree. Read MADD info. Original bulkhead connector contacts were not designed to carry high currents, even when clean. Original equipment alternators were rated at 35A.

VR is built into the alternator

That is a very wise thing to do. I have replaced 5 a-body wiring harnesses, and each one showed some heat damage on the firewall "alternator in" and "battery out" contacts. On 2 of them, the plastic was melted to the point of allowing a short to the adjacent contacts. The problem can only get...

Simply beautiful, momoparman, cudaspaz, and mopardude318. Question: Are you running an internal regulator alternator, and if so, which model and mounting hardware? Thanks Ron