4 months ago I replaced the altenator and everything worked fine. A month later my lights seemed to flicker and pulsate. I thought that due to the battery being small and the car being so old, that it was causing the lights to flicker and pulsate. So, I let it go.
2 days ago my charging light turned on and an hour an a half later the battery died. I took the altenator to Checkers to have them test it. The test came out bad. So, they gave me a new altenator. After I installed the new altenator and drove the car the charging light came on again and the battery is now drained.
I checked the belt and the tension was good.
All the fuses are good.
Battery connections are good and clean.
Altenator connections are good.
Advice from other people:
My regular mechanic with whom I used to work with. He told me that after replacing an altenator you are not suposed to jump start the battery, but charge it with a charger, because jumping it could send to much power to the new altenator causeing it to blow out?
Check the battery water levels?
Have the entire electronic system checked for shorts?
I am going to take the new altenator out to have it tested as well as the battery. Before I do, I thought that I would come here for any advice.
Thx
Suggestion:
Pop the battery out and have a place like auto zone test it for you for free, and if it's no good buy yourself a battery with at least 750 to 850 cold cranking amps , plus make sure it's fully charged up before installing it.
Hope that helps and best of luck. By the way to me it sure sounds like your battery is no good.Here's a link to one of the best battery's I believe that is on the market.
http://www.interstatebatteries.com/cs_estore/
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