JohnE
08-17-2015, 02:46 PM
The other night my battery light came on and the voltage dipped to about 10 volts. Pulled into a parking lot and discovered that the heat shrink on section of the alternator wire had vaporized! There was nothing left covering the wire coupling at all. To make matters worse, the coupling was also grounding to the alt bracket.
The Trillogy kit has the alternator wire cut and lengthened. It uses two screw couplings to do this. (I bought my car after the Trillogy was installed.) They did have high quality heat shrink covering both of these connections at least. Apparently corrosion set into one of these so bad that only 8 strands were left to carry all of the current from the alternator. Well, that caused a LOT of HEAT to occur.
I replaced the alt wire with a beefier pre-made battery cable and reduced the joint to only one coupling. Also liberally used dialectic grease in the connection. Sealed the joint with self sealing high temperature silicon wrap. My voltage with the engine running is better now than it ever was.
Sharing for other Trillogy owners. Might be worth checking on your cars.
The Trillogy kit has the alternator wire cut and lengthened. It uses two screw couplings to do this. (I bought my car after the Trillogy was installed.) They did have high quality heat shrink covering both of these connections at least. Apparently corrosion set into one of these so bad that only 8 strands were left to carry all of the current from the alternator. Well, that caused a LOT of HEAT to occur.
I replaced the alt wire with a beefier pre-made battery cable and reduced the joint to only one coupling. Also liberally used dialectic grease in the connection. Sealed the joint with self sealing high temperature silicon wrap. My voltage with the engine running is better now than it ever was.
Sharing for other Trillogy owners. Might be worth checking on your cars.