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From: lazeldes@wlcrjs.UUCP (Leah A Zeldes)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Mopar Alternators
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 20:13:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 11 20:13:58 1985
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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....

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					Leah A Zeldes
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