osssmosis
07-15-2007, 02:25 AM
Ok here's the deal. About a week ago the battery light came on and stayed on, so I took the battery out, took it to autozone to test, and they said it was in good shape. So i went back put the battery back in and bought a new alternator to replace it. I replaced the alternator, and the battery light still stayed on. So today I started looking around the engine bay and found that the alternator/choke 120a fuse was blown, so I got another one and it blew right away. I traced the thick wire on one side of it and it is the wire that goes right into the alternator (the wire that is held on the alternator by a nut.) Thinking I may have had a short, I rant a jumper wire directly from the alternator to the post where the fuse goes completely bypassing the original wire and put another fuse in and it blew the fuse right away again. The wire on the other side goes right to the battery. To complicate matters worse, I took the original core alternator back to the store and they tested it and told me that the alternator is good. So now my question is, what else could be wrong with this car?? Assuming that autozone gave me a bad NEW alternator, I can pull the alternator again and go change it but what if it doesn't fix this problem????? I can't see where there is a short. Anyone have any ideas???
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance