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dan@dscanlon.com

Jul 6, 2008, 3:08 PM

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my 2002 ford explorer shut off yesterday and was dead when I went to restart it. I put in a brand new battery and it started everytime the rest of the afternoon. The battery I replaced was the original of this ford explorer. Today, while driving the needles of the guages flat-lined and the car shut off soon after. When I tried to start the car it was dead. It jumped very easy only to shut off again a short time later (like 5 minutes!). Alternator? Bad connection? Sparkplugs? Anything else? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!


Tom Greenleaf
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Jul 6, 2008, 3:58 PM

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Charge battery up again by charger. Dead batteries can kill an alternator and when battery is known charged again, check the alternator for output voltage. If it doesn't go up to ~13.5-14.5 +or- when running the alternator is suspect bad and you can have it bench tested to verify that,

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Jul 6, 2008, 4:09 PM

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thanks, i was afraid of that. couldn't be anything else other than alternator huh?


Tom Greenleaf
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Jul 6, 2008, 5:23 PM

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There could be a fusible link, fuse or wiring connection fault at the alternator. You said battery was orig in a 2002 vehicle and that's really pushing the limits of any battery life and it would be a weak link with alternator problems or caused the alternator to work like crazy and burned it up. Even with your jump with new battery after it went dead the alt was strained again hard enough to wreck a new one all over again. It's like playing ping pong with each other able to hurt the other.

Look for burned or overheated wires to alternator and have it tested off car. If it's good (doubt it) then let's see what else we can find that would disable it now. What did the volt test show with battery known charged separately?

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