Hi,
I'm having no end to the problems on my 182 at the moment!
This morning I got to work fine, no problems, after a half hour run. Went to move it at lunch and the STOP light and the battery light illuminated. Turned it off and on again and it was still there.
Did some reading at lunch and people suggest this sequence means the alternator isn't charging the battery and could be the eyelet connector to the alternator from the battery. This is fine.
When I came to go home this evening, it started up fine but with both lights on still. I get half a mile down the road and can smell burning quite strongly so I pulled into a pub car park to see smoke coming from under the lights. Popped the bonnet and although I couldn't see exactly where it was coming from, the smoke was coming up from the front O/S, alternator area, around where the cross member is.
The smoke smelt like electrical burning, the kind of smell you get when a fuse blows in front of you...
I pulled into a garage, checked the battery and it was only at 11.2V so turned everything electrical off and tried to get home. Once on the motorway at 4000revs, lights were out and burning smell stopped. Only when I came off the motorway and stopped at the end of the slip road did it come on again.
Got home to my drive with light on. While idleing I tried raising the revs a little to 2000 and the lights went out on the dash. Let it idle again and they came straight back on... Sat at 2k, tried switching headlights on and dash lights came back on, raised revs to 3k and they went out again.
So, when the revs are up, the alternator appears to be working, when they drop, it's not and burning something! The more current the car is drawing, the more revs are needed to keep it working.
What could this be? Is the alternator goosed? Or is it an electrical connection to the alternator? How does the alternator earth? Through it's fixings to the block?
Thanks!
I'm having no end to the problems on my 182 at the moment!
This morning I got to work fine, no problems, after a half hour run. Went to move it at lunch and the STOP light and the battery light illuminated. Turned it off and on again and it was still there.
Did some reading at lunch and people suggest this sequence means the alternator isn't charging the battery and could be the eyelet connector to the alternator from the battery. This is fine.
When I came to go home this evening, it started up fine but with both lights on still. I get half a mile down the road and can smell burning quite strongly so I pulled into a pub car park to see smoke coming from under the lights. Popped the bonnet and although I couldn't see exactly where it was coming from, the smoke was coming up from the front O/S, alternator area, around where the cross member is.
The smoke smelt like electrical burning, the kind of smell you get when a fuse blows in front of you...
I pulled into a garage, checked the battery and it was only at 11.2V so turned everything electrical off and tried to get home. Once on the motorway at 4000revs, lights were out and burning smell stopped. Only when I came off the motorway and stopped at the end of the slip road did it come on again.
Got home to my drive with light on. While idleing I tried raising the revs a little to 2000 and the lights went out on the dash. Let it idle again and they came straight back on... Sat at 2k, tried switching headlights on and dash lights came back on, raised revs to 3k and they went out again.
So, when the revs are up, the alternator appears to be working, when they drop, it's not and burning something! The more current the car is drawing, the more revs are needed to keep it working.
What could this be? Is the alternator goosed? Or is it an electrical connection to the alternator? How does the alternator earth? Through it's fixings to the block?
Thanks!
Should it rise once the lights go out if the alternator is kickin back in?
