Stop in for a cup of coffee

shittyslant6 said
Oh boy.
Thank you. If the new alt. and the VR don't fix it then I definitely will rewire that circuit.
I am at a standstill tonight because I got the wrong belts from o'reillys (I am not sure how they gave me the wrong belts, but both of them were about an inch too short.) I even made a string template by wrapping string around the pulleys to get the EXACT right measurement.
I am separating the water pump and alternator belts because I was running the alternator belt on that front snout thing on the alternator. Not the actual pulley and I think that is what killed the alternator in the first place.
so tomorrow is going to be belt mania to make it all work.

I would do the wiring regardless..... The original wires are too old and may have cracks and spots of high resistance...

Replacing the old wires with nice new ones will help keep some of the stress down on the alternator and regulator...

I used to have a 69 Valiant for a daily driver in the 90's... The alt gauge would flicker sometimes (for no apparent reason) while I was driving... I was replacing alternators and regulators every six months at best...

One Christmas I came to visit my dad over my winter break from work and pulled it into the back garage and tore into it... Turned out that the main power wire that came through the bulkhead and wrapped around the gage cluster had overheated sometime and melted the insulation off the wires and would intermittently ground on the dash frame... It melted a bundle of wires together... I replaced them one at a time, tracing them and following the wiring diagram in the service manual and pretty much rewired the whole under dash wiring harness, then did the alternator and ignition wiring under the hood in the engine compartment...

I never had to replace another alternator and regulator on that car again...

Fresh wires will give you many happy miles of trouble free driving... :steering: