Check continuity from charge stud to alternator case. If so, you have a short inside is my guess.
No continuity from main post to alternator body, but I do have continuity from both the other connectors, green wire to one and two blue wires on the other (which I think go to solenoids?)
Just pulled it and checked again. My continuity is from the blue wires connected on top to ground. My chart says those are distributor and idle solenoids, which I dont have
Guess I gotta pull the shaker base
and trace em out
Ok traced. I disconnected the blue wire going from top of alternator to my distributor solenoid. Not needed dead end. The other blue wire goes to the voltage regulator on the firewall, adjacent to the green wire.
When I disconnect the blue/green wire connector, I get continuity from one end of each wire to the other, but no reading at the posts on the regulator itself. So far ok.
Then, with the blue/green wire connector plugged in to the regulator, I read continuity to ground from the alternator end of the blue wire, but then a little while later after testing some other connections, I DIDNT get continuity to ground. Maybe something wrong with my VR?
If so and I swap my VR for another, what do the numbers on it mean? The black one I have says 321. Is that a fake 32nd week of 71? And what about the one labeled 1320?
I use an MSD 6AL ignition, and my ballast resistor is bypassed.
