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It's an Electrical Mystery

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have you tried looking at your voltage regulator? mine went down just as you describe back in 97, in fact I would just park my car on an incline when ever possible cause I could find a replacement at the time (didn't really have access to the net) so that was a main reason for having it sit for so long. I had my starter tested the new and old generators and at first the battery that was in the car when I bought it was bad, but then I put a new one in and it did the same thing. so that was when I test the new generator, and that passed as well, after that we figured it was the VR but since it would at least push start that due to the availability of the part at the time I just didn't do anything about it.
 
I'll make a note to test that part as well. Can you test it? Or is it that if everything else is good to go, then it MUST be the voltage regulator?

Joel

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Well, it isn't the alternator. Just had it tested this afternoon and it checked out fine. So...maybe its the voltage regulator?

The shop that tested the alternator for me told me to hook everything back up, charge up the battery, then hookup a test light to the battery and start popping fuses off. When the light goes out, that's where the short is. The guy was fairly certain that I have a short in my system somewhere that is draining the battery.

But...that doesn't explain the weird behavior just before it cut out. I think it's probably a short AND something with the distributor.

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