As everyone knows, TAC went poopoo and so this thread is currently lost. Today I got out and tore into my wiring under the hood. Here's what I've done and then I'll tell you the symptons I'm still having...
* Replaced battery
* Replaced battery cabes
* Replaced battery terminals
* Replaced alternator (internal regulator)
* Had replacement alternator tested - tested good
* Replaced two prong plug that goes into alternator
* Replaced wire that goes from the alternator to the starter
* Replaced wire from the firewall to the alternator (spliced into existing wire at a good point then ran to alternator)
* Replaced wire from the firewall to the starter (spliced into existing wire at a good point then ran to starter)
* Replaced wire from the firewall to the brown wire (spliced into existing wire at a good point then ran to brown plug wire)
* Grounded engine to frame (didn't make a difference so I removed the ground)
OK, there was some great information in this previous thread that I lost and I no longer have for reference so I need ya'll's input again. Using the dash voltmeter gauge she stays in the yellow. I ran down to Advance and had it tested and it's coming back as if the alternator is not charging like it should. Like a bad regulator in the alternator but when the alternator is tested, it tests fine. Now, prior to my playing with the wires and removing tons of splices in the wiring, some were even hanging by two tiny threads, the car would and has always, started fine. The voltage would read in the yellow. After the car warms up to about 180 the voltage would swing up to 13.5. When this happens the lights get bright, the power windows work well, etc. So when the gauge reads yellow (11) it really is in the yellow as far as charging the car. Now, even after warm up, she just stays in the yellow. It's charging just enough to keep the battery from dieing as she continues to start fine even after running her for a while.
Another strange thing I found was that the brown wire and the red wire that come out of the plug were actually spliced together at some point. I unspliced them and ran them separately as I thought they should be. Whoever did actually cut out a sqaure in the rubber of the red wire and rapped the brown wire, bare, to the red wire and taped it. When I saw that I thought, hey, that's more than likely my problem but, alas, I'm still fighting this thing.
So, what I need is someone to help me out in how I need to test this thing with a volt meter or any other ideas that might help.
It's pretty maddening after spending 4 hours on this thing running wire and it not being fixed.
Thanks for the replies guys, I'm also going to post this over at TAC in case folks aren't looking here.