From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 11:39:15 PDT
At 1:45 PM -0400 5/23/02, Amnon wrote:
>
>Anyway, anybody has any ideas? The truck does not have the right battaries,
>just two 12V battaries, half the physical size of the battary trays. Andy
>says he replaced the glow plus some time ago, and the glow plugs module.
From what you describe, it certainly sounds like it's not charging
when at low RPM and that the belt does need to be tightened. Perhaps
the alternator is about to fail?
I'd tighten the belt, charge the batteries externally with a charger,
then see if the problem persists. Then I'd change the batteries. (Get
a larger set of batteries that have as much CCA as you can afford.
More battery can't be a bad thing.)
I had a similar sort of issue with the Ferret and a bad battery of
the pair causing a charging imbalance and lack of sufficient 24 volts
of power to run at low rpm for extended times or crank it up for more
than a few seconds. This all left me in an intersection here in
Atlanta trying to hand crank a ferret armored car. The cop just
wasn't sure what to think....
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