B Dike wrote: > It worked! I replaced the bulb and now the alternator > is generating current. > > David, you are a scholar and and a gentleman!
<grin> No problem. I saw that diagnosis on a website somewhere, once, for GM car...it stuck in my mind mostly because it seemed like kind of a poor design. If the bulb is burned out, the alternator doesn't work, but you don't know it's not working because the bulb can't light up. ;) It's the simplest (and cheapest) way to do it, though, so it turns out most cars are wired that way.
