Recent content by khowa45

Na it's all plumbed up correct, I seem to have low vacuum when pulling the line off to test. It's a (oex) brand alternator

Seems like I may have not been so lucky, I'm now having issues with my brakes, the pedal is going hard when pushed, like there's no vacuum to the booster

Yeah seems to be! I reckon I'm pretty lucky. Goes to show I need to learn another more about my electricals aha

Yep it was changed somewhere along the way. Just got it running and charging 13.6 volts. It was the missing insulator that caused the 100 amp fusible link to blow out. Thanks everyone for your help!

These seem to be fine when tested

Ah yep there was a sneaky one aha. Now to work out what I've damaged

It's a 12ht 12v mate

I've just brought the vehicle, even the original alt did not have an insulator.

Are you saying it needs an insulator under the terminal so it's not grounding on top of the alternator?

This was the plug on the old alternator

Thanks mate, it was previously wired into the plug on the old alternator. What is that wire for then?

As you can see it's also arced out at the top of the alternator

This is how I've setup the alternator loom for now, I cut the old duetch plug off and just put terminal clips in there in the same order. When I put the negative back on the battery there was a big spark.. As you can see on the loom near the alternator there is also a fuseable link that I...

Thanks for the info, has been helpful. Although I now believe I have the alternator plug wired up correctly, so I'm unsure why it would have fried something