95 Dodge Charging issues!! Please Help!

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04-21-2014, 04:20 PM

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Well I ended up putting an external regulator on and the system is charging now but it is over charging the system. Now its at 18v at an idle. Any suggestions?

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The tach is working perfectly fine the only problem I have is the volt meter is only reading about 12v and my check engine light is on saying that my volts are to low on my charging system. So I ended up putting an external regulator on and the system is charging now but it is over charging the system. Now its at 18v at an idle. Any suggestions?

Sounds like a bad regulator, a bad regulator ground, or a bad field ground. Guess it could be the key on source to regulator below 12v too.

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04-21-2014, 09:13 PM

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[QUOTE=kstaley;1058715]Well I ended up putting an external regulator on and the system is charging now but it is over charging the system. Now its at 18v at an idle. Any suggestions?

I'm battling the same issues I have tried several regulators ran grounds strait to the battery. Still can't get it. I don't drive it far so for now I just manually connect and disconnect the alt. Till I can get it lined out

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04-22-2014, 10:53 AM

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the 12 oclock position wire on the regulator needs to be as close to battery voltage as possible
what terminal do you have your field wire on
if you wired it backswards it will blow the regulator

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04-23-2014, 06:09 AM

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I just cut the factory wires on the alt. We have a lot of old mopars. So I cut the wireing off one of our old carsand color matched the wires. From all the diagrams I have found I matched them. I'm going to buy another regulator and try that.

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04-23-2014, 07:00 AM

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I use the typical 80's -90's Ford regulator without issue. I've seen them show a check gauges and show no charging voltage but that seems to be more common when not using the hot wire initially used on the alternator. I've not really looked into the actual that specific issue deep enough to give you an answer.

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04-23-2014, 07:06 AM

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I was going to use the ford setup then I seen moparman rigged his up with a Mopar setup and I was like hell I have plenty of them. But I have had nothing but failure so far. So I'm going try the ford I think. I'm not too concerned about the dash lights in my swap. Every light on the dash was on anyway so I took it apart and started pulling bulbs. Fixed it haha