[Vwdiesel] Starting problem

[brian gochnauer]

Sounds like a bad regulator (alternator) to me.



On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:50 AM, travis gottschalk <tgott at hotmail.com>wrote:

> My brother is having starting problems with his truck and I don't know how
> to help him (being 700 miles away). His truck will start and then with in
> seconds his volt meter goes from around 13 to about 14.5 and then it kills.
> When he starts it back up is runs fine then. It doesn't matter if lights,
> fans, etc are on or off and it just started to do this. It first started
> when the Alt light what a light glowing red (not full red). I said that
> maybe one if the two Alt wires were bad like mine was (a $100 learning
> experience) and to try bypassing his wires coming from the Alt. He did and
> then it worked fine. Then with in a few starts it started the problem above
> with the killing. I didn't know if it is a relay that is overloading and
> killing the truck (as it is gas truck converted to diesel) or if his
> alternator is in need of a rebuild because it is shorting the system. All
> power dies at the 14.5 volt spike and then it comes on and it is all good.
> Any help he would like as he just needs to get it to winter before he parks
> it for a the winter salting season and he doesn't want the expense of
> insuring another vehicle that only gets 15 instead of 50 mpg.
>
> Thanks
> Travis G
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