Re: dim alternator light while running

["Jim Cash" <j.cash@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ray

Check your battery connections and then check the smaller of the + battery
cables - the one going to the fuse box.

I had the same trouble and it was corrosion inside the cable at the battery
end - causing a poor connection between the connector and the cable - thus a
high resistance in the cable.

What is happening in this case is the alternator is feeding some power to
the fuse panel by the "back door" method through the charge light - because
the front door route (that cable) has too high a resistance and is causing
too great a voltage drop across it's length- the voltage at the lamp is
higher and therefore flows that way.

Another possibility is that the cable is loose at the connection point under
that fuse box - be careful working there - remove the battery cable from the
battery first.

Also check the battery ground  connections at the body.

Cheers

Jim Cash

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