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Sorry, I don’t support the antiquated stock alternators at all. They have 4 common main failure modes, and the modern ones have fail-safe strategies integrated into them. They just work perfect, are low cost, and enable you to shut the truck off safely in any switch order.
Others here may...
Some differing things here, but I have no problem politely bowing out. I was on my way out the door anyway.
OP, glad you have most of your stuff resolved.
Hooking stuff up reverse polarity doesn’t help, but at least you were honest about it. Not sure what is damaged or not.
Check the alternator running voltage again both hot and cold later once you have things in better shape. At idle and raised RPM as well. The regulator may or may not be...
I was referring to your dash gauges working with the dash battery switch turning on/off as being perfect, as you said it formerly did not do that.
There is a lot more going on with this truck than just the alternator. Owner said he had to drive it on the stock over-charging alternator for a...
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