Alternator woes

[CHKNFKR]

Well today Georges alternator catastrophically failed and turned 6-8 inches of two wires in it's harness to turn into fireworks. I've already replaced the alternator and cut open about a foot of the loom to replace the burned up wire.

Everything is working perfectly now, but i'd like to replace the pigtail, or the complete harness. This is where things get stupid. I work at a parts store, we don't even have a lookup for this particular pigtail. Bwd and dorman both told me i'm SOL, neither of them make the pigtail. All of our local competitors failed to find so much as a part number. The ford dealership here couldn't even find the damn thing! It's a freaking pigtail! How hard can it be?

If anyone here has been through this and was able to find a solution i would greatly appreciate your assistance. If i can't find a new pigtail i suppose i will go dumpster diving at the junk yard, but i'm trying to avoid that.


For those of you that don't know george is a '95 f250 supercab 7.3psd 2wd.

 

[adsm08]

Parts guys are morons.


Which wires did you burn up? Which pigtail do you need?

 

[CHKNFKR]

The only pigtail on the alternator. It plugs into the voltage regulator on the back of the alternator. There are only two wires. Niether bwd nor dorman carry it. Ford was even useless to me.

The wire i spliced in seems fine for now but i thought a better solution would be to replace the whole harness since it burned things up so badly (the wires were completely gone) my concern is the wire behind where i spliced in and the connector itself, it saw a little heat...

 

[CHKNFKR]

And not all parts guys are morons. Some of us were mechanics before we were parts guys.

 

[trail B2]

Moronic parts guys not so much for me.It's just when they really don't care and just want to get back to there coffee.

 

[CHKNFKR]

to me it looks like just a standard 4G connector. I'm gonna give that a try tomorrow and report back.

 

[nitrofan1]

Parts guys are morons.

Gee thanks. That's like me sayin all of you wrench turners are parts changers not mechanics!

 

[adsm08]

And not all parts guys are morons. Some of us were mechanics before we were parts guys.

Ok, MY parts guys are morons. I look up my own stuff half the time.


I'll see if I can find that one in the book at get you a number.

 

[adsm08]

Alrighty. Acorrding to our parts cataloge the voltage regulator pigtail for the truck in question is....

:drumroll:


Part number: 1U2Z-145411-UA

or

Service kit number WPT-119.


Both will get you the same thing.

 

[doorgunner]

And not all parts guys are morons. Some of us were mechanics before we were parts guys.

AAAAAAAhaaaaaaaa....SO.....it's the people who research the info that gets put (or not put) in the parts books, who are (or, are not) Morons!!!!!