Thread: Which AOD would be right???

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damn i was hoping it was. i think id be looking at the one wire alt hard.

Tried one once, Mike. Had some problems with the charging at low speed, and some overcharging in a long distance drive. Maybe it was just a bad alternator??? Sure would simplify things, though......

thats all ive had for alot of yrs. no problem. i just take a stock one and run the one wire to it. dont know why you had a problem.

Hmmmm. Maybe it was just a bad alternator, switched it back to an external regulator and it worked fine!!!!! Any other ideas what might have gone wrong????

did you have a store bought one wire or a reg. one that you wired?

It was a store bought (Summitt, I think) GM alternator, had it on a customer's car. This has been a few years back, I probably just had a bad one or something.

thats whats so nice about them, is bolt them on and go. the only thing that I know could effect it would be a bad ground somewhere in the system. I'm sure you had the hot wire hot all the time. i burnt a few of them up one time on a blower motor i had, i turned the alt. around with the pulley facing the motor, look good but would burn up an alt in about 10 miles. i knew the alt. would charge either way, but i forgot about cooling it. after about 10 alt. and a week later I got an alt. fan pulley off of a corvair and fixed it. they turn backwards than a reg. motor, same alt. dif. pulley.

Must of just been a bad alternator, chased the ground wire thing a bit, didn't seem to make any difference. Had a good battery ground and a ground from the chassis to the engine, body to the engine, etc. Might just go ahead and try another. Thanks for the help, Mike.

if you're not sure get a old alt. from the junk yrd. and wire it like this and see how it works before investing in a new one, you may like it this way just as well.. dont need the blue wire, but you have to idle the motor up a little when you crank it if you dont have it. if you alraeady know this just forget i said anything.

Originally posted by lt1s10
if you're not sure get a old alt. from the junk yrd. and wire it like this and see how it works before investing in a new one, you may like it this way just as well.. dont need the blue wire, but you have to idle the motor up a little when you crank it if you dont have it. if you alraeady know this just forget i said anything.

im trying to load a pic.

Originally posted by lt1s10
im trying to load a pic.

one more time time, if it dont work this time ill do something dif. it want work, back to the drawing board.

Originally posted by lt1s10
one more time time, if it dont work this time ill do something dif. it want work, back to the drawing board.

if this dont work im ging back to school. well i guess its back to school. it wont load dave. im still working on it.

sorry about your thread dave but i know i know how to load pic. this is a test.

Originally posted by lt1s10
sorry about your thread dave but i know i know how to load pic. this is a test.

This is a test of the emergency photo loading system. If this were a real emergency, you would see a picture of something along these lines flashing on your screen

Wow, no doubt! It wont load pictures! Bummer