Well as Jim set about replacing my driver side middle axle stop ring I dissambled the cab and removed old alternator and some of the wiring harness, ( I had new wiring from SAV ) and went about replacing the alternator and the new harness, then on to make up the #8 wire to pass thru the cooling tin to the breaker, and from the breaker to ( this is where I departed from Dennis's instructions ) I ran a long length under the regulator, and thru the bulkhead tru the floor for the lockers and over the tunnel, and under the dash, looped it and back to the regulator, (this loop is for the installation of a ammeter from SAV ) back along the main harness to the starter and hooked it up.
The new alternator bench tested out at 50.5 amps, when running with about all my stuff on the alternator was able to keep up and not kill my batteries, (H4 head lights, 100 watt off road lights, 400 watt alpine amp for stereo and stereo all running) bonus is the rebuild came with seald bearings for smoother operation...
After 3 weeks now it's doing fine a lot less battery drain then before, still have a few gremlins not related to the alternator to work out, was thinking about a small solar panel on the roof to keep the batts topped up all the time as well as a bettery equalizer.
Will show some other ongoing projects soon, Andre Swanso has fabed up some tanks for my air compressor system, that is not quite finnished.
