<VV> help! Charging system dead!

[Frank DuVal]

Do you have a voltmeter, DVM? If so, put a jumper wire between the F 
terminal of the alternator and the positive battery terminal, engine 
running.  If the voltmeter, reading battery voltage, jumps to 14+ volts, 
the alternator is good. Do not leave this jumper wire on very long, as 
the alternator is what's called "full fielded" and is putting out all it 
can all the time. This is on page 6Y-7 of the 65 shop manual.

If the battery voltage does not rise, check the voltage on the output  
terminal of the alternator. If this voltage rises, then look for an open 
wire (fuseable link) between the alternator and battery.

Frank DuVal

Ray Rodriguez III wrote:

>I replaced the alternator with a unit that was working when last used three years ago, no change.  I swapped out the voltage regulator with one I "think" is good and still no change.  My father is doing his best to test the diodes in the alternator I removed... his memory on how to do this is shaky at best but he says it seems ok.
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>Is one of my "replacement" used parts definitely bad or could the problem be elsewhere?
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>Thanks again,
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>Ray Rodriguez III
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