I just noticed that the OD in my 18 yr old daughter's 97 Taurus AX4N quit working. I asked her how long it was cruising at 3000 rpm @ 60 mph she just gave me a dumb look. However, I wonder if her latest problem may be related. Her car wouldn't start last night so she copped a ride home at 9:00PM from someone. My son an I went back to town (10 mi) and boosted it. When we turned the lights on it died. We then let it charge for 10 minutes and proceeded home. the lights were cycling very bright to very-very dim, sometimes so dim that the car would chug. Her right side dash light is burned out so I never noticed the tach reading. When I got home the battery was dead. I went out to my Taurus graveyard, found and put in a "new" battery. I then test drove it at 7:00AM and the flickering lights were still there but not as severe so I assumed the regulator was bad, and also that's when I noticed the OD problem. Back out to the graveyard to look for a matching alternator, found one and removed the regulator and put it in the
- The brushes from the 97 were wore out down to the spring. It is charging fine now but I was wondering if the brain box got confused with all of the severe high/low voltage cycling that it went into a "limp mode" and disabled the OD......? I have access to a code reader but she drove the car to school so I can't read them now.....My question is will "limp mode" disable the OD? Thanks, and I hope my story was entertaining, cause it wasn't much fun here in fukkin' zero degree Minnesota.