Message text written by INTERNET:RayAntoky@aol.com
>While driving the wife to work today in beautiful topdown weather all of a
sudden the ammeter stopped indicating charge and the red light came on. I
suspect its the regulator (control box) since I'm getting no output to the
yellow wires, unless I push the points together manually, then the light
goes
out and the ammeter goes neg. all the way. (I'm in a neg grd situation.) I
have no meters to check anything as recommended in all the manuals. My
tendency is to replace one thing at a time. Must I remove the generator to
take to a shop to test it, should I drive it to the shop to test, can it be
tested in the car if the regulator's not working? What could make the
control box go bad all of a sudden? Or maybe it's the generator? Maybe it's
both?
What to do first?
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Ray, first buy a meter. It is a basic tool in electrical troubleshooting
and repair. You wouldn't expect to be able to change a cylinder head
without a torque wrench why would you expect to fix an electrical problem
without a volt meter?
Good luck
Dave
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