Autos vs Manual transmissions

Why would a voltage regulator matter if you're jumping the truck?

Try again. Keep trying to justify 90 year old technology. It's entertaining!

 

Hmm, let’s see, voltage regulator starts overcharging the batteries and takes out two of them boiling them out. So you are left with one good battery. You won’t start a 14 or 15 liter motor with jumper cables if two out of three are bad, but you can pull start it and get it going or roll start it if you are on a hill. This is experience, not theory or hypothetical. How’s that for justification?

 

LOL So lets see, in order to justify a standard we have to:

1.Kill batteries so alternator must go out.

2. Voltage regulator must go out.

3. It must fail in the high voltage direction, which they rarely do. We have to pray the voltage was high enough to damage 4 huge batteries but not the very sensitive ECU....

4. Battery damage has to occur which is rare because regulators rarely go out in the high voltage direction AND you'd have to ignore the lights on the dash indicating a high voltage situation as damage would not be instant. It would take a while driving with high voltage to damage batteries. Voltage high enough to damage batteries would cook the computer anyway, so standard or auto, you'd need a tow.

Anything else? This is fun. Lets keep going!

 

You’re right, they rarely fail due to overcharging. It’s so strange how there are multiple threads on this website about this very topic, that a google search yields page after page about overcharging, and that my dad replaced a 165 amp Leece Neville and three batteries earlier this summer due to the voltage regulator hitting 17 volts all of the sudden. Guess it’s just coincidence, huh? Oh and the computer is just fine

 

LOL Yea right, it's a bunch of crap and you know it.

 

You work for Ozark in Memphis right? If you want to put your money where your mouth is, the truck in question is sitting a few hundred feet from Hwy 78 and old Hwy 78 just behind Crow’s parking lot. He will show you the alternator, and you can probably check the ecm to see it’s the original. That’s a fact.

 

If you would know anything about mechanics, you'd know the engine computer requires voltage to run. If the voltage regulator is bad it can't run as the ECU would get incorrect voltage. So having a standard wouldn't help, the engine wouldn't run. So he's dead due to his ECU not getting power, not because of his tranny.

But keep making #### up, this is fun!

 

The truck is at his shop. It’s a shop we can park a truck in, a shop he rebuilt a big cam 3 in, a shop I built several small block chevy’s in, and has more tools than you can imagine. Yeah, I have no mechanical knowledge. If You want to take the alternator to veeco on Hwy 78 and Winchester and see it charge at 17 plus volts, then have him switch it out and stand in amazement as the ecm functions and the truck runs, just let me know.

 

I don't believe you rebuilt a dog house if you don't know that an ECU can't function with a bad voltage regulator.

Your eyes must be brown, that's all I have to say.

 

Thank You master guru. Ps of what exactly??