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Originally posted by deruvian
...the eye-terminals for the wires are simply being held by silicone...
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Fix that ASAP. Forcing your alternator to use a weak connection like that could do a very bad thing - like letting the magic smoke out!
SVXer95 is correct about how to "check" an alternator. One thing I would suggest, is that you turn
everything on while doing this test. You should turn on the rear window defogger, heated mirrors, headlights, foglights, ventilation fan, and whatever else you can think of. If you could simultaneously operate all the power seat and power window functions,
and wait until the radiator fan comes on, that would be ideal - but just turning on as much as you can will work. By turning on all this stuff, you're also testing the alternator's capacity to handle a large load. It should be able to do this without breaking a sweat. When you take your alternator somewhere to be tested, they basically hook it up to a giant resistor and see what it can do.