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Does anyone in Adelaide have their dash cluster out of the car atm, or a spare cluster?

I want to try plugging a known good cluster in to my loom to see if the dash lights playing up is something to do with my cluster or the car. Alternator is working fine, wiring to the alternator has been replaced (battery light now never comes on) but the other lights (radiator, door, brake fluid, windscreen washer, foglights) still come on when the engine is running

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did you forget to fit some wiring back up when you changed motor's Adam???

Take it to jaustech and get them to look at it, it could be a million and one issues, if you've replaced all the wiring between the alternator/starter motor/battery, and its all done up, make sure its not earthing out on the brace for the plenumn as mine was...otherwise seek professional help!!

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New battery, still making 16+ volts... Bloody mechanic swore to me that it was charging at the correct rate :(

So its off the road till I get the alternator out... but its too damn hot to do it :D

Does anyone have any hints for getting it out of the car with minimal fuss?

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New battery, still making 16+ volts... Bloody mechanic swore to me that it was charging at the correct rate :(

So its off the road till I get the alternator out... but its too damn hot to do it :)

Does anyone have any hints for getting it out of the car with minimal fuss?

Who worked on the car Adam???

To get the alternator out, do the usual stuff, like belts yada yada, but take the whole bracket off that bolts to the motor otherwise there just isnt enough room to get the alternator in and out...Trust me i've done it like 3 times in 3 months, its a bitch but you get good at it :)

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I must be a retard... I cant even get the belt to loosen. Tried undoing the bolts on what I think is the tensioner and then tried to get the body of the alternator to swing around but no luck.

Theres also some part of the air con or something above it, do I need to remove that aswell?

Oh, and I put a brand new battery in it the other day, its bloody dead flat and I only ran the engine with it in it for a short time :P Something weird is going on with this car

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Are you sure you don't have some sort of a drain somewhere within the car?? No old alarms or anything like that electrially in there that would cause a drain??

Air con is all on the other side mate....You've gotta undo the nut on the front of the tensioner, and then you can undo it, its pretty easy, just stand back and work it out from looking at it....

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I've never had any battery drain problems until after they did the alternator wiring and since then its drained two batteries... no alarm, no lights or anything were on, face of the deck wasnt in the car so the deck couldnt have been on... what else can use power? I'm fairly sure the interior fan switched off when I last stopped the car.

I undid the two bolts on the tensioner thing b7ut nothing would budge after it was undone

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Ok are you working friday or will you be around??? I'll come around and show you how to get it out...I don't rekon its your alternator though, cause the car still run's doesn't it once its started??? I'd take it back to jaustech, tell them its now drained 2 battery's and to fix it properly like they should've the first time...and or take it to an auto elec, cause to me it sounds like you've got a drain somewhere

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Wasnt done at Jaustech, my mechanic did it. It was making 17 volts when it was revved, so the regulator does need to be done, but yeah, I think theres something weird going on aswell thats draining it... but it would have to be something to do with the wiring that they touched as nothing else was touched before it flattened the batteries overnight. I do think it cooked the first one though.

Friday... Working from 5 I think

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Give up? I got the bloody alternator back in there :P

Didnt put the plug in properly and it burnt itself out when the plug fell out, but I put it back in.

Sold it to a friend, the guy that bought Paul's Paul Newman a while ago, he wants to put a big turbo on it and stuff like that. I bought his MX5 Clubman. Missing the FJ20 power, but I'm happy with it.... Just gotta keep telling myself that... :(

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