JPAloha
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Soooo, we’ve run into a small problem on our road trip…quite a big problem actually…..
Since we’re towing the teardrop long distance for the first time I thought I’d have off-road pages open to monitor fluid temperatures, etc. What I didn’t expect to see being an issue was the falling number on the battery voltage.
We stopped in some small town in southern Idaho around 4pm and had it checked at an O’reillys - I packed basic tools but not a multimeter - they confirmed my suspicions…the battery is fine but the heavy duty alternator is not. Their device said the voltage regulator is the likely suspect but that it’s internal on this alternator.
The end result of this is that we are stopped overnight in Provo (ironically at a hotel because all the campgrounds are full) with our voltage reading 12.8.
‘Nobody we called either has an a 240 amp alternator or knows if they might have one because we called after the parts dept. was closed. We also tried calling numerous Jeep dealers in Vegas (our next stop if we can make it) to see if this was covered by the extended warranty and if they had the part and could fit us in.
My question to all you lovely folks isn’t one I’m expecting a yes to but….does anyone have a spare HD alternator for a 3.6, 8AT, knows of one at a breakers yard or has some other means of getting one anywhere between Provo and Vegas?
Of all places, a Fiat dealership in Henderson can get one by Tuesday morning and has said they can install it if we want. I’m planning to phone our local dealership in Canada on Monday to ask about the warranty part. All this is well and good but means two things:
1. We have to hope it makes it to Vegas without needing a tow.
2. Our plans to head out to Death Valley have to be cancelled because we can’t trust the Jeep to keep going and a mechanical failure of any kind in that environment could be deadly.
Since we’re towing the teardrop long distance for the first time I thought I’d have off-road pages open to monitor fluid temperatures, etc. What I didn’t expect to see being an issue was the falling number on the battery voltage.
We stopped in some small town in southern Idaho around 4pm and had it checked at an O’reillys - I packed basic tools but not a multimeter - they confirmed my suspicions…the battery is fine but the heavy duty alternator is not. Their device said the voltage regulator is the likely suspect but that it’s internal on this alternator.
The end result of this is that we are stopped overnight in Provo (ironically at a hotel because all the campgrounds are full) with our voltage reading 12.8.
‘Nobody we called either has an a 240 amp alternator or knows if they might have one because we called after the parts dept. was closed. We also tried calling numerous Jeep dealers in Vegas (our next stop if we can make it) to see if this was covered by the extended warranty and if they had the part and could fit us in.
My question to all you lovely folks isn’t one I’m expecting a yes to but….does anyone have a spare HD alternator for a 3.6, 8AT, knows of one at a breakers yard or has some other means of getting one anywhere between Provo and Vegas?
Of all places, a Fiat dealership in Henderson can get one by Tuesday morning and has said they can install it if we want. I’m planning to phone our local dealership in Canada on Monday to ask about the warranty part. All this is well and good but means two things:
1. We have to hope it makes it to Vegas without needing a tow.
2. Our plans to head out to Death Valley have to be cancelled because we can’t trust the Jeep to keep going and a mechanical failure of any kind in that environment could be deadly.
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