I like the looks of that truck that cummins will make great! Kudos to you guys for givin the help instead bustin his *****.

 

Filled the truck with antifreeze, bought some Royal Purple synthetic 5w-30 for the Getrag (4+1 overfill ), t-case fluid, and some LS oil for the axle and a gasket since it was starting to leak before I parked it. I won't hear anything until tomorrow about my driveshaft. My goal for now is to replace all fluids and hook up this alternator so all that I'll have left to do is put my driveshaft in and drive to my friends house to put an exhuast system on. Cumminsf150, I bought the regulator, the pigtail for it and a 4 pin relay (RL44). Is that relay sufficient enough? It says its 40 amp, but that's all AutoZone had.

 

yea that should work fine. now you just need a key switched power source to turn on the relay.

 

Just got word that my driveshaft should be ready this afternoon

Cumminsf150, I was looking at your diagram, and the colors look accurate but I wanted to double check before I wired this up.
1. The black wire (not the ground wire) coming from the alternator, is that an inline fuse between the alt and battery?
2. The black box with the teal and blue wires, is that where the old harness was?
3. On the relay can I just use the same wire that is powering my injection pump to wire to the relay?
4. On the relay, #30 goes to the (+) post on battery. #86 is the ground. But on #85 and #87, Im guessing #85 is the key on power and #87 is the teal wire going to the battery?

3 wires from the alternator, plus 1 that is grounded already. I got a teal/green, blue and black wire.



Then the teal/green and blue wire go into this connector. Then on the other side is a blue and brownish wire. Leave this connector on or cut it? The black wire has a snap connector end to it.

Here's what the relay packaging says:

 

as far as i can tell from looking at it the plastic block bolted to the alternator is just a fancy connector , the large gauge black wire is the main charge wire going to the battery, the connector that the green and blue alternator wires go into, that has the other two wires, those other two wires originally powered the dodge ac compressor clutch, so you can omit that if you want to. I just cut the ac related wires off and kept the connector. as far as wiring the relay, 85 and 86 are the two ends of the relay coil that control the higher amprage circuit for the field coil and power to the voltage regulator. the coil in your relay can work with either polarity so 85 and 86 can be either power or ground as long as the other is the opposite. so make 86 the ground for the relay, make 85 the wire that goes to your switched power source. I suppose you could use your IP power for that, although you may not want anything else connected to that circuit just to keep it simpler since a blown fuse on that circuit will shut the whole truck down. there is a wire in the ford harness that powered the ford alternators internal regulator, thats what i used on mine to run the relay. Make pin 30 be the power for your relay, use a fuse if you like, then pin 87 will be connected to the blue wire going to the alternator as well as the blue wire going to the regulator. then the green wire runs between the regulator and the alternator. The way it works is the relay will send 12v+ to voltage regulators blue wire and the alternators field coil on the blue wire, then the regulator senses its input voltage on the blue wire and then signals the alternator to put out mre or less power.

 

How much do you want for the toasted starter?

I could really use some parts since i'm in Iceland and a new starter here is COSTLY !!!

My starter anchor got burnt so i have to pull my truck each day for the last 3 weeks to get it running and keep it running for the whole day

But this project is totally awesome, hope the rest goes well... nothing beats a cummins... not EVEN a Duramax

 

**** man just send us the money and im sure we could just ship you one at u.s. cost.

 

Well boys, I just got in from my first drive, and it was AWESOME!!! I met a couple of buddies at the Ingles parking lot and one of them said "You got the coolest sh*t!!" . I wasn't use to the engine shaking the truck and I was nervous but excited at the same time. Cumminsf150, I greatly appreciate all the help from you and all the rest of you guys, couldn't have done without yall I'll be posting some pics and a HQ video tomorrow after I wash her.

 

good job,have fun.

 

now go back to school and cut some leg