Ok, today I went to a local shop today that rebuilds alternators and they sold me a marine alternator and put the reverse fan on it for me. They said that if I rebuilt the motorolla it was not going to be worth it because its more expensive than buying one of their marine ones and it only puts out like 30-40 amps when theirs puts out 70.
It cost me 89 bucks....
Im going to put the battery back in, iv'e already mounted the alternator, but im going to put an inline fuse on the main line leaving out to my main switch panel so hopefully I can isolate the problem if its coming from something up front shorting out the thing.
The battery I have is a optima red top and they swear by it that they never go out or give problems. The auto parts store claims someone wrecked their car and one of the cells was broken of the battery and it still worked.
With all that being said, Brand new stuff can be bad too ...
Did I mention in the first post that when i hook up the wire from the alternator it pulls down the motor a few hundred rpms at idle.
That cant be right?
I'm surprised that if it is something up front that i haven't seen smoke coming out from under the dash.
