JamesCoste
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Jun 15, 2003
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Yesterday, my truck left me stranded at work. I've got about 53,000 miles on it, so my time was due for mechanical problems.<br /><br />Here are the symptoms:<br />- cranked up yesterday morning and the truck drove fine with no symptoms.<br />- After work I open truck door and interior lights are dim.<br />- Insert key and turn and it doesn't even try to turn over.<br />- Had a buddy jump start me and it cranked up although it didn't want to keep running at first.<br />- I let it run for maybe 2 minutes. Put it in reverse and the engine died.<br />- Left it parked overnight.<br /><br />My buddy noticed that the alternator had some black "soot" near one spot on the coils and he said that it was "arcing" there. He said that the alternator is bad.<br /><br />I've fixed alternator's in two or three other vehicles and the one on this engine is very easy to get to.<br /><br />Here are my options:<br />1) Remove the alternator and take it to parts store so they can test it. Hopefully it is bad. I then get a new one and put it on my truck.<br /><br />2) Have vehicle towed to Chevy Dealership, have them test it and install it if it is bad.<br /><br />What would you do?