| [GMCnet] What to do what to do revisited. [message #252434] |
Tue, 17 June 2014 23:36  |
james Ernst
Messages: 79
Registered: December 2013
Location: Lincoln, NE
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Finally after much consternation I am officially an owner of a a 1977
Kingsley. Has the twin beds and dry bath, and if some of you remember, the
455 with the side pipes that look like Lake Pipes.
I do have to wipe a little egg of my face however. I thought the old girl
when I first set eyes on her was an Eleganza. But thanks to Wild Bill I
believe, he thought something was fishy in my description. He was right.
She is running rich so I grabbed one of the old school techs at the folk's
GM dealership. The only guy left that knows how to keep a Q-Jet in tune. He
took one look ordered up a new primary pull off and an electric choke and
should be good to go.
Now for the really perplexing issue. I knew when I picked her up she had a
bad chassis battery. I replaced that and found out her alternator was not
charging. So pulled it out and put it on the test stand, it was fried.
Hell, the machine wouldn't even spin it, fried so bad.
Picked up a new 80 Amp alt. and installed it. Started her up to check it
out. Pushed the monitor on the wall, boom clear into the red. Went up front
put the meter on the batt terminals, showed 12.61 volts, the batt showed
12.80 with the engine off. Hmm? So i took the meter back to the house
battery, 17.98 volts, WTH? Then put the meter on the alt. itself, 17.9V
more WTHs. Pulled the cables from both batteries and check at the alt
again, 25.5V #%$@#. Pulled the alt. took it back to NAPA had them put it on
their tester per their request. Showed a normal 14.8 V.So now I'm stumped
big time. Any clues from the well informed? Magnetic switcher bad? The batt
boost works fine BTW. So no charge going to front Chassis batt and crazy
high voltage.
Other than this and the house water pump( which I was told works)
everything else works great. It has a new Iota 45 amp inverter too.The
house batt was put in in 2006. And the 10year old Dometic keeps beer Ice
cold which is very important right now!!
Can't wait to take her out for first camping trip!
Big Thanks in advance for any and all advice!!
Jim Ernst
Columbus, Nebraska
77 Kingsley
TZE267V100906
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