(As told in my best Steven Wright voice impersonation.....)
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I feel like I have been run over by the karma wheel ....
I am doing a side job for a friend (read that paying customer) to build the drivetrain up for his Ford pickup..
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So, of course I take in another small side job from my neighbor who needed brakes on his Eldo.. I need parts, so I decided to take the yellow truck to the flaps..(This is Friday evening) Head out and didn't get a quarter mile from the house when my autonomic scan of the gauges reveals the truck is running on 7 or 8 volts. Whaaaa? Since I didn't want the truck to be a non-start at the flaps, I went back home and stole the wife's car...and parked the truck out by the shop.. I did feel the alternator case as soon as I got home and the case was real, real hot... Uh-oh... Finished the brake job easy enough early early Saturday morning...it was cooler outside on the lift. Amazing...new rotors are cheaper than cutting rotors nowadays.. Delivered the Eldo at about 8am and was paid handsomely for my efforts.. Then I went to the flaps and got a 'lifetime warranty' rebuilt alternator. Had two places test the old one... (First flaps had to order an alternator...yeah right..,,,,Seeya!) First flaps machine said it was putting out 8 volts, and the second flaps machine had all the 'BAD' lights come on all at once. ZZZZzzzzoooooooommmm...There went my brake job profits.... Had to take the alternator home to swap guts to my 'NateCase' shiny chrome alternator housing... And lo and behold.... The power stud that goes from the inside to the outside wad corroded and cooked. You could see the corrosion had built up a resistance. No wonder it got hot. Put it all back in and it runs like a Champ...er....CE... Not at all mad about it all... It happened at home, instead of on the road. I could fix it in the air conditioned shop on a workbench, instead of on the side of a road someplace.. And it was a money wash... So, maybe the Karma wheel just ran over my toes.... Jeff (and this was all before lunch) Rice