Alternator Woes

[Richard Beels]

Or disintegrate when you're putting the spare alternator into your wife's 
car the night before you're going out of town for the week.  And your 
auto-electrical connector box is playing hide and seek.  But that could be 
just an urban legend...  :-(

At 12:50 10/1/2001,  Andrew Duane USG was inspired to say:
>Hairy green toads from Mars made Kate FitchGerald say:
>
> > Oh, I forgot to ask.  What's the blue small wire from
> > the alternator for?
>
>It supplies power for the field exciter. Without it, the
>alternator won't really start supplying juice. The connectors
>are known for getting corroded, and often need to be spliced.


Cheers!