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blazing red dragon
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ok i have a 98 eclipse GSX and my girlfriend just bought a 98 eclipse GS-T now im curious if anyone has an idea on why in the hell we keep going through alternators...in the GSX we replaced it 4 times this year and the battery once...today we picked up the GS-T and couldnt even make it home without it dying on us we had to keep jumping it for 10min to get it back to the palce to have them fix it cause dam if i was gonna pay for that after only putting 20 miles on it and the thing is just last week they put a new alternator in it and had it at mitsu to have the charging system looked at and replaced a 100amp fuse or something and said everything was good to go this was all done friday...so 3 days later its dead again....just curious if anyone has heard of anything like this or has experience in it...i had to swap these out so much i can do it in like 20 min now...
also everything is stock in both cars..no after market radios or anything..
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Roy
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:06 am |
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Location: Green Bay, WI
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A friend of mine went though the same thing with his girlfriends '98 eclipse spyder. I believe hes' on the 3rd alternator right now. I'll ask him if they ever got the problems resolved...
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SJ
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:57 am |
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ccrunner84
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:21 am |
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Still have the VR4?
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blazing red dragon
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:06 pm |
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yeah i still have the vr-4 hoping to get the rebuild all done this winter so i can drive it all next summer before it breaks down again...lol nick i was gonna ask you for that number where you got yours done..
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:20 pm |
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Location: Lehigh Valley, PA
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Remanned/knock-off alternators FTL... They never last long. Clean your grounds (yes, pull out the ground bolts, sand them clean & sand all connectors).
Do you have any power steering fluid leaks at the pump by chance?
Do you happen to still have all the stock heat shields over the turbo and no exhaust leaks? Excessive engine bay heat will also prematurely kill an alternator.
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blazing red dragon
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:19 pm |
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hmmm not to sure ill have to check all that out....ill check tom cause im doing a bunch of work to the new car brakes,rotors,wheel bearings,tie rods alignment....yeah it all dont need to be done but its the womans car and just rather be sure she wont have any issues with it..now if i only had the much will power to go out and do everything that i wanted to the vr-4! 
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