Big 3 = Broken Car?

[PurpleDiesel 10+ year member]

false alarm

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[stevew007 10+ year member]

did you leave the stock wiring hooked up? if you did then there should be nothing wrong.also did you ground the body? you might not need to but might want to check.

I always ground from the back of the alt to the frame to the body then to the battery

edit i do see the body ground in the pic sorry

 

[PurpleDiesel 10+ year member]

Stock wiring is still hooked up. I doubled the new and old.

I didn't mess with the alternator ground just added two leads from the battery neg to frame & engine block.

 

[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

what kind of car ?

 

[PurpleDiesel 10+ year member]

what kind of car ?

2003 honda accord

 

[ace_800 5,000+ posts]

Unhook from the battery and see if it still does it. Tape up the positive wire from the alt so you don't fuck something else up.

 

[VisceralSound 10+ year member]

Stock wiring is still hooked up. I doubled the new and old. I didn't mess with the alternator ground just added two leads from the battery neg to frame & engine block.

Did you disconnect any pin connectors? I have 1 connector that's in the way of my + on the alternator I forgot to plug that back in once and my Malibu ran/shifted gears (auto) SOOOOO rough/bad.

 

[blazeplacid 10+ year member]

take out everything you added

see if the problem is still there

if it is, check fuses

 

[PurpleDiesel 10+ year member]

Did you disconnect any pin connectors? I have 1 connector that's in the way of my + on the alternator I forgot to plug that back in once and my Malibu ran/shifted gears (auto) SOOOOO rough/bad.

Yeah but I hooked it back up afterwards

take out everything you added
see if the problem is still there

if it is, check fuses

yeah i checked the fuses they're fine but i'm going to start ripping stuff out to see what the issue is

thanks

 

[PurpleDiesel 10+ year member]

Disconnected the Alt -> battery positive and the issue still resides. I don't know how to check the speedomter seeing that the fuses read fine on the DMM. The other guages work perfectly

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

Disconnected the Alt -> battery positive and the issue still resides. I don't know how to check the speedomter seeing that the fuses read fine on the DMM. The other guages work perfectly

how many miles? The speedo cable could be broke. Mine stopped working. but i knew it was going to stop. Because it was reading 8 miles too fast. And then 2 years later. It went.

 

[TheUnderFighter 10+ year member]

o.0 I'm sorry to hear this went so poorly man, I hope they can figure it out for ya. I can't imagine how that could have screwed anything up.

 

[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

shouldn't have eld system.hmm something is not right

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

bet it has an eld system

oh. Your probably right. I am used to older cars. My bad. Hmm. Can he reset his cars computer? and see if the speedometer goes back to normal?

 

[goingdef 10+ year member]

another member up here has a newer honda pilot and it did a few little quirky this when first started back up, something about a E.L.D. switch having to learn the cars electrical system after being unhooked, double check all the connections and make sure there are no loose strands shorting anything, then try driving it around the block and see if after two engagements of the cars cooling fans if everything hasn't went back to normal.