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- 1994
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I have a 93 Explorer that was stripped down to use as an off road rig, but I'm not sure the guy knew what he was doing, The whole dash is gone and with it I'm sure some electrical components. It starts, runs, and drives great, so I don't imagine too many important things could have been removed.
My problem is it's not charging the battery now, when I first got it I put in a charged battery and with it running I was getting about 14.2 volts (12.2 not running) with my muti-meter. So I figured the charging system worked just fine. The next day I took it out on some trails and the voltmeter seemed to be where it should be when I first started out, but after the first gravel road I decided to disconnect the gage cluster as it was bouncing around a lot (no dash remember). Well by the time I got back it wouldn't restart, and even with a jump it would start and then die as soon as I took the jumper cables off, by this point the battery was at 10 volts running or not.
The Explorer is 40 min away and I can't go work on it at least until tomorrow, but I'm trying to get an idea of what could be wrong. Is it possible that disconnecting the gage cluster would stop the alternator from charging? or is there something else I should be looking for, I'll take the alternator in to get tested, but I doubt that's the trouble as it seemed to work perfect just the day before, and that would be too easy.
My problem is it's not charging the battery now, when I first got it I put in a charged battery and with it running I was getting about 14.2 volts (12.2 not running) with my muti-meter. So I figured the charging system worked just fine. The next day I took it out on some trails and the voltmeter seemed to be where it should be when I first started out, but after the first gravel road I decided to disconnect the gage cluster as it was bouncing around a lot (no dash remember). Well by the time I got back it wouldn't restart, and even with a jump it would start and then die as soon as I took the jumper cables off, by this point the battery was at 10 volts running or not.
The Explorer is 40 min away and I can't go work on it at least until tomorrow, but I'm trying to get an idea of what could be wrong. Is it possible that disconnecting the gage cluster would stop the alternator from charging? or is there something else I should be looking for, I'll take the alternator in to get tested, but I doubt that's the trouble as it seemed to work perfect just the day before, and that would be too easy.
