[AT] OT:Musta been the lightning

[Thomas O. Mehrkam]

Well I have a Ford F150 and a Chevy Suburban C2500

It has yet to fail. If I plan to service the Ford the Chevy craters the 
day before. I figured it out the Chevy is jealous. It wants all the 
attention. It finally got so bad I had to buy a new F250 because I never 
had time to work on the old Ford. The Chevy wanted all the attention.

I am afraid to try to sell the Chevy It would probably throw a rod if it 
got wind of that. ;-}

To be on topic. The Ford F250 V10 pulls the International H a whole lot 
better than the 3/4 ton Suburban.

I hope you have better luck with Auto zone Alternators than I had. I had 
one with a life time warranty. I replaced it seven times on my old 
Suburban. They would last about one year. The always failed on the road. 
I got real good at changing them out in August in front of the auto 
parts store.

I made a new rule when I replaced the old Suburban. Only factory parts. 
They cost three times as much but last six times as long. Gives me more 
time to work on old Tractors.

HaliganBar at aol.com wrote:
> Well, in a very bizarre chain of events, I've had alternator failure on 2 
> vehicles in the same day. It started when my 4-wheeler wouldn't start...a check 
> of the battery showed 11.3 volts before starting and 11.0 volts after starting. 


> Then about 3 hours later I was coming back from the local farm store and I 
> noticed the alternator light on my Chevy C2500 was lit up. So I sent the kids to 
> drop the 4-wheeler at the dealership (the first time I was glad our oldest 
> daughter had a boyfriend with a pickup) and I grabbed the "bumpy old pickup" and 
> Kristopher (age 9) to help bale 151 bales of hay we had down.
> 
> After stacking the hay in the barn I removed the old alternator and my wife 
> ran off to Autozone to get the new one. I did take the time to clean all the 
> battery connections (my truck has dual batteries). The first battery cleaned up 
> nicely. However, when I tried to unscrew the sidepost on the other battery the 
> entire positive terminal came right out of the side of the battery. Well, I 
> guess the good news is the cable ends are really clean..actually so is the 
> positive terminal...unfortunately it's also sitting in my hand.
> 
> The only thing that kept me calm during the entire ordeal was the hour of 
> quality time I spent raking hay with the Farmall 350 (requisite antique tractor 
> reference). I think it's very strange that both should fail on the same day. I 
> can't think of anything the 2 vehicles had in common that might explain 
> it....except..we did have a thunderstorm pass nearby the night before. Maybe 
> lightning fouls sparkplugs AND wrecks alternators.
> 
> 
> Thanks for letting me ramble...
> Karl
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