Been struggling with some charging issues. Newer battery (2 months old), newish alternator, voltage regulator (electronic) and solenoid (all about a year old or so).
With a fully charged battery everything is beautiful, starts and runs like a dream.
After taking for a 15 minute drive I'll shut her down and won't have enough juice to even turn the starter over.
Checked voltage at alternator when running and it's reading about 12.4-12.6... So I figure it's the alternator, take it to the local parts house and have it tested. They say it is fine.
I hooked up my new Auto Meter gas gauge and noticed it is jumping around a bit... This is leading me to believe a new voltage regulator is in order?
Another weird thing i noticed is when I flip ignition switch "on" to activate gas gauge it goes to where it needs to be. After a drive where the power has been drained and won't restart, when I switch to "start" the gas gauge loses power. Could this mean I have a short somewhere?
Please help, thought I knew what I was doing, but am starting to second guess myself...
With a fully charged battery everything is beautiful, starts and runs like a dream.
After taking for a 15 minute drive I'll shut her down and won't have enough juice to even turn the starter over.
Checked voltage at alternator when running and it's reading about 12.4-12.6... So I figure it's the alternator, take it to the local parts house and have it tested. They say it is fine.
I hooked up my new Auto Meter gas gauge and noticed it is jumping around a bit... This is leading me to believe a new voltage regulator is in order?
Another weird thing i noticed is when I flip ignition switch "on" to activate gas gauge it goes to where it needs to be. After a drive where the power has been drained and won't restart, when I switch to "start" the gas gauge loses power. Could this mean I have a short somewhere?
Please help, thought I knew what I was doing, but am starting to second guess myself...