Good Alternator Information
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Good Alternator Information
I have a 89 5.8.
Every time I would turn on my AC it would pull my alternator gauge real low. Thats not suppose to happen. Yesterday I was under my bronco on the passenger side looking up into the engine compartment. I saw a ground wire that just clips on to the body and the frame. I wiggled it to see how tight it was and it moved easy. So I cleanned it up so this it could get a good ground. You know, just genneral maintenance. Well since I did that, I can run my AC now and it does not pull may gauge down but just a hair, like you would expect.
Check your grounds.
Paul
Every time I would turn on my AC it would pull my alternator gauge real low. Thats not suppose to happen. Yesterday I was under my bronco on the passenger side looking up into the engine compartment. I saw a ground wire that just clips on to the body and the frame. I wiggled it to see how tight it was and it moved easy. So I cleanned it up so this it could get a good ground. You know, just genneral maintenance. Well since I did that, I can run my AC now and it does not pull may gauge down but just a hair, like you would expect.
Check your grounds.
Paul
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Originally Posted by amish77
a clip on ground? sounds like it's time to get a soldering iron and a ring end and a bolt.
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Originally Posted by amish77
a clip on ground? sounds like it's time to get a soldering iron and a ring end and a bolt.
Sorry don't know how I posted this twice
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Yeah, Ford used woven ground straps with a cleat on the end to slip over the metal edges of frame rails and portions of the body. I have put them in place and run a "tech" (self tapping metal) screw through the cleat into the frame to ensure it doesn't suffer the problem that poffutt mentioned.
