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Samuel Ferguson is currently offline  Samuel Ferguson   United States
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I would like to say a BIG Thank You to following:
Ken Henderson,C Boyd, Matt Colie, Johnny Bridges, Ken Burton, GMC Ranger, Fipp, jimk, James Hupy, MR ERFisher, and anyone I missed....

I had an alternator issue of having a high output. With the assistance and coaching of these fellows, I seem to corrected the problem (I hope!). I cannot began to explain what I did to fix the issue, other than the last 3 weeks,I've had every wire unhooked and hooked back up, checking for breakage and shorts. (Not finding any, other than booster cable). I've replaced alternators 3 times. Installed a new isolator box, pulled fuse panel (found radio to have a short in it), pulled instrument panel (found terminal harness pins on back of gauges to be broken with 1 pin resting on back of gauge while plugged in terminal connector), and installed the APC or"Alternator Safety Cable" wiring.

With engine running, I have checked every terminal connected to alternator battery, fuse panel, instrument panel that has to do with charging and output, getting the proper readings.

I know I drove these guys, especially Ken Henderson, batty with my "ignorance" and not using the proper "terminology" while trying to explain my issue!

Again, Thank You all for your patience and hopefully I have the issue fixed and will not be rolling in to one of the coach rallies in a "ball of fire" on wheels!!!!

Samuel Ferguson


Samuel Ferguson Summer Hill, Illinois (West Central Illinois) 1976 GMC Palm Beach

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Re: [GMCnet] A BIG Thank You to the following: [message #348977 is a reply to message #348971] Sun, 06 October 2019 18:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
GMCWiperMan is currently offline  GMCWiperMan   United States
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Glad it all seems to be working correctly now! Looking forward to our
meeting.

Ken H.

On Sun, Oct 6, 2019, 11:07 AM Samuel Ferguson via Gmclist <
gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:

> I would like to say a BIG Thank You to following:
> Ken Henderson,C Boyd, Matt Colie, Johnny Bridges, Ken Burton, GMC Ranger,
> Fipp, jimk, James Hupy, MR ERFisher, and anyone I missed....
>
> I had an alternator issue of having a high output. With the assistance and
> coaching of these fellows, I seem to corrected the problem (I hope!). I
> cannot began to explain what I did to fix the issue, other than the last 3
> weeks,I've had every wire unhooked and hooked back up, checking for
> breakage and shorts. (Not finding any, other than booster cable). I've
> replaced alternators 3 times. Installed a new isolator box, pulled fuse
> panel
> (found radio to have a short in it), pulled instrument panel (found
> terminal harness pins on back of gauges to be broken with 1 pin resting on
> back of
> gauge while plugged in terminal connector), and installed the APC
> or"Alternator Safety Cable" wiring.
>
> With engine running, I have checked every terminal connected to alternator
> battery, fuse panel, instrument panel that has to do with charging and
> output, getting the proper readings.
>
> I know I drove these guys, especially Ken Henderson, batty with my
> "ignorance" and not using the proper "terminology" while trying to explain
> my
> issue!
>
> Again, Thank You all for your patience and hopefully I have the issue
> fixed and will be rolling in to one of the coach rallies in a "ball of
> fire" on
> wheels!!!!
>
> Samuel Ferguson
> --
> Samuel Ferguson
> Pittsfield, Illinois
> (West Central Illinois)
> 1976 GMC Palm Beach (A newbie who will not allow this thing to kick my
> butt!!)
>
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Re: [GMCnet] A BIG Thank You to the following: [message #348980 is a reply to message #348977] Sun, 06 October 2019 18:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
James Hupy is currently offline  James Hupy   United States
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Glad that we could help a fellow GMCer solve a problem by remote control.
Jim Hupy

On Sun, Oct 6, 2019, 4:32 PM Ken Henderson via Gmclist <
gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:

> Glad it all seems to be working correctly now! Looking forward to our
> meeting.
>
> Ken H.
>
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2019, 11:07 AM Samuel Ferguson via Gmclist gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:
>
>> I would like to say a BIG Thank You to following:
>> Ken Henderson,C Boyd, Matt Colie, Johnny Bridges, Ken Burton, GMC Ranger,
>> Fipp, jimk, James Hupy, MR ERFisher, and anyone I missed....
>>
>> I had an alternator issue of having a high output. With the assistance
> and
>> coaching of these fellows, I seem to corrected the problem (I hope!). I
>> cannot began to explain what I did to fix the issue, other than the last
> 3
>> weeks,I've had every wire unhooked and hooked back up, checking for
>> breakage and shorts. (Not finding any, other than booster cable). I've
>> replaced alternators 3 times. Installed a new isolator box, pulled fuse
>> panel
>> (found radio to have a short in it), pulled instrument panel (found
>> terminal harness pins on back of gauges to be broken with 1 pin resting
> on
>> back of
>> gauge while plugged in terminal connector), and installed the APC
>> or"Alternator Safety Cable" wiring.
>>
>> With engine running, I have checked every terminal connected to
> alternator
>> battery, fuse panel, instrument panel that has to do with charging and
>> output, getting the proper readings.
>>
>> I know I drove these guys, especially Ken Henderson, batty with my
>> "ignorance" and not using the proper "terminology" while trying to
> explain
>> my
>> issue!
>>
>> Again, Thank You all for your patience and hopefully I have the issue
>> fixed and will be rolling in to one of the coach rallies in a "ball of
>> fire" on
>> wheels!!!!
>>
>> Samuel Ferguson
>> --
>> Samuel Ferguson
>> Pittsfield, Illinois
>> (West Central Illinois)
>> 1976 GMC Palm Beach (A newbie who will not allow this thing to kick my
>> butt!!)
>>
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Re: A BIG Thank You to the following: [message #348985 is a reply to message #348971] Sun, 06 October 2019 20:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Matt Colie is currently offline  Matt Colie   United States
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Samuel,
No Problem.
This is why we are here.
Matt


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Re: A BIG Thank You to the following: [message #349008 is a reply to message #348971] Mon, 07 October 2019 10:37 Go to previous message
jhbridges is currently offline  jhbridges   United States
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First of all, yer welcome for what it's worth. Second of all, this is a good example of how we should be handling folks with multiple troubles. Rather than fifty Good Ideas. let one person distill them down to0 a sequence of tests and changes to (finally) get the problem corrected. In this case, Ken Hende4rson took the lead, and thus one sequence got it going instead of five different directions.

--johnny


Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons. Braselton, Ga. I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell

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