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I'm not whining/complaining - just curious! 200

posted by  Aye Roll on  Mon Feb 17 10:12 CST 2003
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Well regulators do go bad... and this is what they do. I guess I would have taken a voltage reading before I threw a harness in it but hey, if you needed one, it needed to get changed anyway, right?
Be glad the parts lasted this long. Most other 1983 cars are long gone. Yours has a lot of life left.

I don't know, it was just its time to go. The brushes really could have been at the end of their travel, or a wire was broken- who knows. COuld have just been a screw connnection and you cleaned it up enough by replacing it.

I just had the original ring terminal break off the big power lead on the back of my '86 alternator... I guess 210,000 miles is a reasonable expectation for such a part. Brass pieces definitely do get brittle with high temperatures. If I was inspired, I'd pull out the regulator and have a look at the brushes... but that sounds too much like work. Maybe next oil change.
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: 86 244DL, 87 244DL, 88 744GLE, 91 244: 808K total






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