Glad you made it. Thanks again for getting me the old "Star". Good move on keeping GF warm.
Jon On Jan 4, 2013, at 7:01 PM, dsereta...@yahoo.com wrote: > Well the voltage readings no longer fluctuate. Not sure what was going on. > Now it just doesn't charge period. Drove it back from ME to MA today. Started > at 12.45 V and ended with 12.08 V after using heater fan a few times to keep > the GF warm:) > > Thinking about just trying one of Curt's spare VR/brush modules and taking it > from there. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 4, 2013, at 6:42 PM, Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> My thoughts are bad diode(s) in the alternator, grounding the battery. >>> >>> May be worth taking the car to FLAPS so they can test your charging system. >>> >>> Max Dillon >>> Charleston SC >>> '95 E300 >>> '87 300TD >>> '73 Balboa 20 >> >> Not when the battery voltage is fluctuating with the engine off. I trust >> Jim Cathey's analysis. He deals with moving electrons around every day. TO >> remove any doubt, with the engine off, take off the ground terminal and >> measure battery voltage across the terminals. If you get the same thing, >> take the battery back. >> >> There still could be an issue with diodes (replace alt.) or brushes. >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
