Ford Superduty battery and charging issue
Yesterday, I had my small utility trailer on the hitch of my 2003 F-250. I had dropped the trailer off and then put it back on the ball. Since it was near nightfall, I checked for running lights on th...
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I forget if it was Nippon Denso or who it was that made the alternator in my 1987 Toyota SR5 XtraCab 4x4, but at 195k miles, the alternator stopped charging. A trip to a Napa auto parts store, $3.50 in a set of new brushes, pulling off the alternator, a soldering iron and some new solder, and I was up and running again in about an hour. Cleaned up the commutators with a pencil erasure, and a dental pick between each commutator to clean out the gunk, and called it good for another 195k miles.
This was when I was younger, and very much more mechanically inclined.
This was when I was younger, and very much more mechanically inclined.
