Fred is dead!

[moparedtn]

Cliff notes?

For ye of short attention spans, I recommend skipping to the EPILOGUE and CONCLUSION sections.

 

[1967coronet]

Glad it was just a dead battery

 

[davek]

Glad you got it done. And Fred is were he belongs. Your wife knew what she was getting into the day she married you. Have a Blessed evening Ed.

 

[moparedtn]

Glad it was just a dead battery

Thanks, but I'm well aware something actually killed that battery through a slow drain over the last month...
Something that was throwing quite the nasty spark yesterday.
Between all the numerous testing and minor repairs to this and that, we got it skinned though.

Truth of the matter is, who knows how long the drain had been going on, since before the last month, I had
been driving Fred fairly regularly and putting the maintenance charger on him otherwise.
It took a month solid of no driving and no charging for it to become the problem that it did.
Regardless, the battery was a casualty, not the cause.

 

[eldubb440]

congrats Ed, it's usually something simple......now go for a ride!

 

[moparedtn]

congrats Ed, it's usually something simple......now go for a ride!

Aye. The reliable ol' Ram will now fetch Fred a new battery and we'll be taking him out soon.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

FWIW The battery taking that final jarring bump could be the cause of it failing, one of the plates could have been weak & that shot could have caused it to fail & internally short out the battery..

 

[Don Frelier]

FWIW The battery taking that final jarring bump could be the cause of it failing, one of the plates could have been weak & that shot could have caused it to fail & internally short out the battery..

So watch where you're going Ed.
Poor Fred.

 

[moparedtn]

So watch where you're going Ed.
Poor Fred.

Sheesh.

 

[moparedtn]

This whole thing did remind me of a question I've always had about Fred, though:
Why does he have an alternator with two FLD hooked up in back? Wouldn't a '68 have a single FLD?

 

[1 Wild R/T]

This whole thing did remind me of a question I've always had about Fred, though:
Why does he have an alternator with two FLD hooked up in back? Wouldn't a '68 have a single FLD?

Does Fred still have the early style regulator? If so the dual connection style alternator can be used by simply grounding one terminal....

Good early style alternator cores are getting harder to come by so many rebuilders simply substitute the later unit with instructions to ground one field connection..