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Originally Posted by fixit-p
The American Auto wire kit didn't kill your alternator, something else did. If the center two terminals are jumped together (red and white wires) then the whit wire should absolutely go to the #2 terminal. And the outside 2 terminals (brown and blue wires) go to #1 terminal. If you look at the diagram below and follow the wires from the back of the alt you will see the #2 wire and the batt wire both connect at a buss (circled) this take advantage of the alternators ability to sense voltage remotely and is more efficient than just jumping the wire to the back. The colors at the alt in the drawing differ from what you had but that is only because the jumpers on the drawing are from 1-3 and 2-4 the only thing that matters is that the brown wire ended up at #1 on the alt and the red wire at #2.
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Maybe not, but the truck was fine with the stock alt, replaced it witha 63 amp internal, and the AAW harness. Smoked the alternator, chenged alternator, smoked it too. Dissconnected the harness, wired the truck based on thread here and it worked fine. No other changes.