Cranks but won't start. Unplug ground at field spade on Alternator and it starts?

Coil gets 8 volts when cranking

This suggests that IGN 2 is not able to provide the bypass it is designed to do.


What showed up was a two spade field alternator and I ground one spade to alternator body which worked flawless for two weeks.
Can't say for sure but...

99% of grounded field (round back) alternators are coming from the rebuilders as a isolated field (square back) with one terminal internally grounded. They clip off the spade terminal but leave enough of a terminal there that many have put field terminal on it and fried their voltage regulator.



Arrow points to trimmed terminal on the GROUNDED field terminal.


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