In Drive? Really??

With my car, if I had the loaded idle that high it'd want to get away from me...Set right now, to what I think is too high, is a 1000rpm unloaded idle (2000 cold) and in drive, I judge the needle to be at about 600, and it's trying to go..

But at any rate, I was COMPLETELY on the wrong path with the alternator. I had it tested and the alternator is fine, I was kind of disappointed to hear that it makes 80A and 14.2V.

It seems, that the pulley, and the belt engineering is somewhat sub standard, as having the alternator driven by too big of a pulley. I noticed that the pully on my alternator was a 2 piece pulley, and I thought about it, and I took the pulley off, put a washer in between and in distancing the two plates, it makes the pulley smaller. I gained 2.5 volts at idle, however with headlamps, fog, radio, heater, and wipers it still drops to 11.9V@idle, but does increase, albeit slowly to 12V@idle. I still think I should have maybe a minimum 13V@idle with all loads..

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2002 E430 4matic (212,000km)
2002 ML500 'sport'

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