The shlomo car had a terrible time last winter. dead battery every few days. tightening the belt worked, then we replaced it this summer.

hes at it again. the battery will hold a charge and is not too too old. the belt doesnt need tightening, i tried that(i paid 12 dollars for a chinese wrench at a fuel stop)

if you slow down or let the car idle, the lights and heat come back but as soon as youre going over 30, it all goes dim. the lights never actually turned off though.

regulator? alternator?

how long have youall driven with your benzes lights looking like those from a 6 volt beetle?

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Regulator.

Was it leathermang that did the trip frol AK to the coni. USA?

Awesome.

i thought that was it, but i figured id ask yall just in case

my mother was spooked. shes never owned a diesel and she thought fuel injection was all electric

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Most GAS fuel injection is!

Even the bosch mechanical fuel injection relies upon the fuel pump to take care of buisness.

That was PEHaiges that did the return from AK. I once did Norman, OK to OKC, a week in OKC and then back to Austin w/o a functioning alternator. I little hot in the car w/o ac, but other than the temp, no big deal. Drove in the daylight tho...

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replace your regulator first......if that doesn't fix it then spring for another alternator (but keep the regulator you just bought for future use)

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1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

I once drove my car for six months with a failing operator. Being in college I didnt have enough money to fix it and instead just used my guarantee at sears on my battery . I drove from tallahassee to Miami and back with a dying alternator with no problems as long as I could get the car started. I just had to avoid driving at night (lights).

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i was in college i once drove my 1960 simca for months probably at least six, with a dead generator. every night i plugged it in. i drove away with it under the hood one day and ended up splicing the wires when they got cut off. i once was driving to south bend from muncie at night for the family christmas with a dead gen. i spent more than an hour driving behind trucks with my parking lights only when it got too weak to make spark with the headlights on. made it to us 31 and the indiana toll road before it died. my brother in law and dad came to the rescue. i drove the last 20 miles with dad's battery sitting on the pass side floor and jumper cables running up out the window and to the battery under the hood.

chilly!

i finally spotted a dead simca in the spring in indianapolis and got the gen off it for about $10 i think.

those were the days!

tom w

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.