Blue Streak Regulators?
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Blue Streak Regulators?
My headlights and pretty much every electrical part on the truck has started to pulse when it wants to and work fine when it feels like it.. From my experience I need a voltage regulator, so I went and got one from work. It is a Standard Motor Blue Streak VR-166. I have never had any dealings with a Standard product much less a Blue Streak series "Premium". My questions, are they any good? And I assume if they are, that they would be much better than the ~$15 parts store Transpo thats already going out after not too long. Any feedback would be much appreciated! Oh and on a side note I am going to be looking into a 1 wire conversion but I need my truck back ASAP and this regulator and a heater core are keeping it down ATM haha.
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We've used standard blue streak parts a lot over the years at work( mostly caps, rotors, and coils) and never had good luck. We don't use there parts anymore because of this. With that being said I've never used one of there regulators before. Good luck.
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Well I guess there is only 1 way to find out if it will work for me and thats to put it through its paces. Thanks for the responses! And i'll need all the luck I can get my truck eats these things for breakfast haha.
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Hah, well a quick update on my very short experience with them.... GARBAGE...Put the regulator on, had a few other things that seemed to add to the problem with the regulators but long story short if you touched the wires of the harness the regulator would start to let the alternator put out full charge then bounce back and forth and you would have to hold your mouth just right and it would stop... old regulator I thought was junk= works perfect and you can play with the wires all you want and it does just what its supposed to...seemed like a pretty nice quality part, guess first impressions can be very wrong. I will be getting my money back 
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