Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wlcrjs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!wlcrjs!lazeldes From: lazeldes@wlcrjs.UUCP (Leah A Zeldes) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Mopar Alternators Message-ID: <557@wlcrjs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 20:13:58 EST Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.557 Posted: Mon Feb 11 20:13:58 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 06:32:32 EST References: <3074@umcp-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: lazeldes@wlcrjs.UUCP (Leah A Zeldes) Distribution: net Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL Lines: 18 Summary: Sure are strange, aren't they? I've owned a 1970 Plymouth Duster for about eight years, and for a while I thought the thing ate alternators. I was replacing them at least once a year, and sometimes more often. Usually these were rebuilts. The car had other electrical funnies too. Two years ago, I was driving from Detroit to Chicago and the alternator went in Kalamazoo. I bought a used (used-used, not used-rebuilt) alternator for $15, and it's worked fine ever since. I have no explanation for why the thing is working so well. About a year ago I had the electrical system traced down and they found a short where a lightbulb was burnt out over the ignition. Maybe fixing that helped. Maybe I just got lucky.... -- Leah A Zeldes ...ihnp4!wlcrjs!lazeldes