Hey - What do u think about this?

[abarthle]

Hey guys whats up? Got a stumper of a problem.
My battery gage has been fluctuating lately...as soon as i start up (and it takes time sometimes) the battery meter stays around 9 ampers and only goes up to its nominal 13 if i'm driving along and even then sometimes it goes down to around 10 ampers. It can't be the battery or alt, their both brand new...i also have a check guages light appearing. As the ampers go down the lights flicker as if theres a large load on the battery but that's probably just because my ampers are going down!

any suggestions as to what it might be??
thanks guys!

[Zedicous]

Hey guys whats up? Got a stumper of a problem.
My battery gage has been fluctuating lately...as soon as i start up (and it takes time sometimes) the battery meter stays around 9 ampers and only goes up to its nominal 13 if i'm driving along and even then sometimes it goes down to around 10 ampers. It can't be the battery or alt, their both brand new...i also have a check guages light appearing. As the ampers go down the lights flicker as if theres a large load on the battery but that's probably just because my ampers are going down!

any suggestions as to what it might be??
thanks guys!

Sounds like your alt, go to autozone and have them check it for free..

[rapter34]

If its not the alt you might want to check your wires out. check for corrosion or cuts in the wiring. But I would have to say it sounds like the alt.

[abarthle]

yeah i was thinkin the wires too, because when i got a new battery it was coroded has heck so i'm guessin maybe the wires would be too because the alt is brand new ac delco part and i can't believe that would be goin bad, i've only had it for maybe 6 months. i outta check out the wires.

thanks guys
i welcome anymore suggestions.

[Zedicous]

Nobody has ever bought something new that went bad?

[abarthle]

yeah but it rarely happens...i had it tested, it's the wires, the positive wire has broken down due to corrosion so i just gotta replace it.

not bad, the only sorta hard part will be gettin it all right on the starter selenoid.

thanks alot fellas

[Zedicous]

good deal

[hartsmike]

sounds to me like it might be the ground.

[johnward643]

Nobody has ever bought something new that went bad?

ya i have. bought a new distributor and it was bad. 3 hours of labor on and off with removing the water pump and everything in the way. Lets just say no more oreilly parts.

[440 rwhp trans am]

ya i have. bought a new distributor and it was bad. 3 hours of labor on and off with removing the water pump and everything in the way. Lets just say no more oreilly parts.

msd!!

[johnward643]

msd!!

well me and my dad thought it only needed a cap and rotor. so we bought the Msd cap and rotor kit from jegs and then it wouldn't set the right timing.

so we ordered an oreilly distributor and put the msd cap and rotor on it. So i guess i got half an msd distributor and i prolly would have bought the msd but i have just bought the car and i am 16. I buy everything myself so i gotta work a while and pay the car off before i can put much more into it.