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11-23-2004, 10:51 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Seaside, Oregon
Posts: 1,789
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Electrical woes...
Ok, so Friday morning I fire up my pickup to head to work. It's dark so I turn on the headlights and as I'm sitting there, with the engine idling, the headlights/instrument cluster lights dim down....and then pop back up....and then dim back down again. Wierd. So as I'm heading to work, same thing is happening the whole way there. Now at first, if I revved it at all, the lights would pop back up bright again. Now they are just dim all of the time no matter what I do. The turn signals are slow to start blinking (there's like a 3 or 4 second delay before they start) and when they do start blinking, their "on" time is very short and the windshield wipers are also very slow. It hasn't given me any problems starting at all since Friday (and I drive it everyday). It's a '71 with a 350 in it. It's got a brand new battery and regulator. I would probably start pointing my finger at the alternator but I question the dimming on and off of the lights. I have never seen an alternator cause this. Any ideas
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