sirposted

I put in a new alternator new battery and new fuse link, as soon as i put the negative terminal to the batt the fuse link pops i get a new fuse and it happens again if it sits longer than a day the battery dies.

Amerikaner83

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there's a short...likely in the alternator. Did you have it tested before you put it in the car?

asand1

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Why did you replace the alternator? Whas it blowing the fuse prior?

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Alternator installed wrong or replacement alternator bad.

asand1

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Don't condemn the alternator yet. If the old one did the same thing its something else.

sirposted

well i replaced it because the batt wasn't holding a charge even with a good fuse, how could i of put in the alternator wrong its just one connector and that one ground bolt (very easy) and its matches up to my old one perfectly, its a new one not re-built

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True, but double check to see if there's any metal to metal contact between that "one connector" and anything else.

You definitely have a short somewhere.

sirposted

ok ill check it out

sirposted

wait metal to metal.....that one bolt actually has two nuts. there was one on there already with a aluminium or ceramic chunk and another bolt on top (so it went nut-chunk-nut) i took off the top nut and put my connector on but the other nut couldn't catch a thread so i took off the chunk since my old one didn't have it. (now its nut-connector-nut) the car fired up fine with a new battery and held a charge for two days then one day dead

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Well it's kinda like this....there's a + wire going to the alternator, if that wire comes in contact with the housing of the alternator or any other part of the engine your entire engine becomes + charged, once you slap the - terminal on to the battery, voila you've just created a short (fuse pops) ... or at least that's what the system should do.