Mark,
Sell the Buick. If you're not over the age of sixty and don't live in
Florida, you shouldn't be driving one anyway.
Ed Woods
-----Original Message-----
From: Hooper, Mark <Hooper@alex.com>
To: 'triumphs@autox.team.net' <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 12:28 AM
Subject: RE:Ammeter
>
>I have an electrical bug in my 91 Buick Regal. It has a voltmeter.
>Whenever I take off from a stop, or if I put on the brakes with the
>car stopped and push the gas a little, the voltage drops to 10 volts.
>All the fans and lights go dim. Thos problem is driving me mad. I have
>consumed 3 alternators in 3 years and can't find it. If I had an
>ammeter, like in my TR6, then I could determine whether the alternator
>is failing and there is a huge charge draining out of the battery, or
>if something was drawing enormous current. The ammeter is more useful
>by far. As noted in another posting, the wiring is more complex and
>requires more heavy-gauge wire work.
>
>On the Buick side, (sorry about this non-LBC question) has anybody
>seen this one? I was sure that it was a connector failure occurring
>whenever the motor twisting in the frame at acceleration, but the
>damned thing has two top braces and barely quivers when under load. I
>am now wondering if the torque-converter locking mechanism is acting
>insane. This problem has been going on for years, so if this was a
>faulty wire, the currents involved would have fried it long ago.
>
>Mark Hooper
>hooper@alex.com
>
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