About a month ago, I left my lights on all night and killed my battery. I replaced the battery and all was fine for about a 3 weeks untill just last week when out of nowhere, upon start up, my charge light was flickering and a strange ticking sound was hear above the passenger side foot well. Over the next week, the problem was different at different times. Sometimes it was just a dimly lit ebrake light on while I was driving, my volt gauge was just below 12v all the time. Other times, when RPM dropped below 1x, the flickering charge light and ebrake lights would go on and the ticking would start. When I pull up to park and engage the e-brake the noise starts, then if I release ebrake, it goes away.
The volt gauge will go to 14v every once in a while, for nbo rhyme or reason, and will last untill my next start up , where it goes back to being stuck at 12v
The fusible link (Thats the green connector thingy right?) Looks old and there is a few spots where bare wire is showing. (One leading into postivie terminal on battery, looks frayed at the connection point. Took to autozone and they wheeld out there machine, he said my alternator wasn't working, but my battery was fully charged. How could this be?
Everyone wants to sell me a rebuilt alternator, voltage regulator, or both. O want to make sure it is not a simple wire.
What could the correlation be with my e-brake?
I never knew anything about cars when my aunt gave me this thing. Now I am learning more than I ever wanted to.
I only have 157k on my 1982 fj60, with only a few quarter size rust spots near rear wheel well. It's a great truck, but I also have to pass smog by Dec or I will not be able to register this truck in CA. It's the sellers responsibility to have it pass smog, so I might be interested in selling it to someone in a state where they don't need smog. (I applied for our states smog assistance program, they did some troubleshooting and it would need as carburator overhhaul to pass.)
I have replaced the following since I got it in Nov 05'
Clutch slave cylinder
Power steering pump
Clutch
Power Steering Pump (Again)
Smog Pump
Radiator Hose
Thermostat
Battery
Tires (Wrangler)
This site rocks! any help wpuld be much appreciated, or if anyone is interested in my wagon, let me know and I weill post pics and price.
The volt gauge will go to 14v every once in a while, for nbo rhyme or reason, and will last untill my next start up , where it goes back to being stuck at 12v
The fusible link (Thats the green connector thingy right?) Looks old and there is a few spots where bare wire is showing. (One leading into postivie terminal on battery, looks frayed at the connection point. Took to autozone and they wheeld out there machine, he said my alternator wasn't working, but my battery was fully charged. How could this be?
Everyone wants to sell me a rebuilt alternator, voltage regulator, or both. O want to make sure it is not a simple wire.
What could the correlation be with my e-brake?
I never knew anything about cars when my aunt gave me this thing. Now I am learning more than I ever wanted to.
I only have 157k on my 1982 fj60, with only a few quarter size rust spots near rear wheel well. It's a great truck, but I also have to pass smog by Dec or I will not be able to register this truck in CA. It's the sellers responsibility to have it pass smog, so I might be interested in selling it to someone in a state where they don't need smog. (I applied for our states smog assistance program, they did some troubleshooting and it would need as carburator overhhaul to pass.)
I have replaced the following since I got it in Nov 05'
Clutch slave cylinder
Power steering pump
Clutch
Power Steering Pump (Again)
Smog Pump
Radiator Hose
Thermostat
Battery
Tires (Wrangler)
This site rocks! any help wpuld be much appreciated, or if anyone is interested in my wagon, let me know and I weill post pics and price.