sleazebagger 10+ year member
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The alt that I have is the next model up which I believe is a 4g model. The harness I linked was only for the purpose of showing what type of external regulator.Ok, so the part that they sent you mentions a 6G. This is a later alternator style than the 3G that I mentioned above.
They said that green/red is the turn on wire. But that should be feeding the dash light from the alt, not the turn on for the alt.
The Yellow/white should be the turn on for the alt. This is the A or AS pin in the connector, opposite from the R/G on the connector. This A/AS is the same on the 3G alt as well.
BUT, that still does not explain why your stock alt turns on, but this one does not.
NOR does it explain why you have the current you need, but not the voltage. If the current is there, then the alt IS outputting juice. (Or you are slowly depleting the battery.)
Have you tried to ground the alt chassis with a separate ground line? Maybe you need that potentiometer to up the voltage level. (Though I'd be surprised if it can increase the voltage by more than 10% as is required here.)
The oem harness has two wires, r/g left(alt turn on), org/grn right(sensor/meter) no middle wire.
The harness they sent me uses only the (alt turn on/ r/g wire). the middle wire is blk/wht(goes nowhere) and the right wire is yellow(goes to potentiometer and terminal post.
We tested every terminal and wire to find the right one and it seemed to be correct.
Its either that... or for some reason the updated internal regulator is not allowing this alt to produce the proper amount of voltage. It's definitely producing current...WTF