Took the 80 out a couple weeks ago and shortly after leaving all the lights came on indicating a charge issue. Revving the engine would cause the lights to intermittently go out for a short time, but then they stayed on permanently. Put the meter to it and it was not putting out any charge. I wasn’t gonna let that ruin my weekend. I had a back up battery just in case and miraculously, I made it 2 1/2 hours of the mountain without an issue. The alternator on there actually looked fairly new, I’m guessing a Toyota reman. Tried a new set of brushes, that didn’t fix the problem. Installed a new alternator from Autozone, volt meter on instrument cluster immediately shot up to just below 18, put the multimeter to the battery I was getting around 13 V and it would increase to just under 14 when revving the engine a little. After just a couple minutes all the lights came back on and getting no charge again. Came out the next day double check belt tension fired it up again, still no charge reading at the battery but not all the lights go out every time I give it a little gas. Even though the lights are going out, there’s no change on the multimeter reading and we’re still not getting charge on the battery. Any thoughts on what this might be other than another faulty alternator out of the box?
