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[moparstuart]

speaking of breaking down we sheared off an alternator bolt in the head going home ,  we made it home ok with the help of duct tape , yes duct tape . We spent all evening getting the car back on the road and missed the belton cruise .   Car is rigged back together but now i have a ground issue and it wont charge regularly  ?  

do you have a ground from the battery cable to the radiator core support?  most old mopes dont, but I found that a 12 gauge wire grounding the battery to the core support helps.  They did this on all the dodge trucks if I am not mistaken and my 87 dodge ramcharger would not charge consistently at 13V without that ground wire attached.  Not sure if it will fix it, but it wont hurt either!

as a matter of fact i do have one to the core support ,  ,  its the voltage regulator at the firewall we are trying to get grounded better  we has an alligator clip on it to a ground and it would intermittantly charger , with out the clip no charge at all  ?
I am putting those bitter (star)  washers on it and sanding paint .

what about a ground strap from the block to the firewall? sometimes its over looked on motor swaps...

Do you need an easyout for that alternator bolt?

it has the big ground strap   We have easy outs but we had even a diamond tipped drill bit and could not get it to go down into that hold ,  hard ass bolt tip broken off in there . , I will post pictures of it later  .  We found a bracket off another motor to bolt into the other holes in the head and had a pre threaded nut wleded on to mount the alternator .
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[moparstuart]

ok here is my alternator saga

 

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   we couldnt get the bolt to driil out so we mounted a bracket to remount the alternator

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  so still trying to trace down my grounding problem

[69rtse4spd]

Try a carbide center drill, but be carefull, must go in straight carbide is hard & dose not like side movement. Be sure to were safety glasses, carbide will shatter, then try a left handed drill, sometimes it will catch & back the bolt out. More than likely the bolt work harden over the years & all the heat cycles. .

[moparstuart]

Try a carbide center drill, but be carefull, must go in straight carbide is hard & dose not like side movement. Be sure to were safety glasses, carbide will shatter, then try a left handed drill, sometimes it will catch & back the bolt out. More than likely the bolt work harden over the years & all the heat cycles. .

we were using a left handed drill and an easy out , but just couldnt get a hole for it to bit in

     the bracket is working fine for now . its the chargeing problems now 

[moparstuart]

well took my life time warranty alternator back to oreilly today and got a new one   works great now

   broken bolt and broken altornatior , i would image one cause the other  . 

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  went back to the standard black solid state regulator  ditching the blue race style for just a bakc up in the glove box again