Recent content by jim9660

On a vehicle with glow plugs, ether and red hot plugs are not a good combination. You need to run fast so the cylinder head doesn't land on your toe if something goes wrong.

Depending how long the wires were shorted, you may have fried the battery cables as well. There is enough to light lights, but not turn the engine over.

I have been working on vehicles and have built many race engines as well as worked on countless diesel engines all the way up to C15 Cat engines. I use blue loctite on everything, especially starter bolts. On the Ford Powerstrokes, the starter is mounted to an aluminum bell housing. After 1 year...

Actually, the alternators are new. I managed to get the driver side charging. The pass side light stays on. I have power where I should, so some how they burned that one out. This weekend I am going to pull it out and tear it down. I have spent hours reading your posts and must say I have...

I didn't think the question was all that difficult for the experts, but I was wrong.

I have read all the very informative posts on the charging system. I have been having an issue with gen 1 not working. The previous owner, a fire department at a state park sold it with this issue. They couldn't figure it out. My question is, the brown wire has power when unplugged, but not when...