Mud-club
Vehicle & Technical => Range Rover => Topic started by: MrTFWitt on February 01, 2007, 13:36:20
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I inherited a Rangerover V8 last year and finally have some time to look at it.
First thing to fix is the alternator.
The old one had a snapped off terminal stud so I replaced it with a newer one only to find I still have a battery warning light on the dashboard despite having 14 volts hitting the battery.
The newer alternator has 4 connections on it though.
Ive connected
B+ to the battery, fat wire off to the battery
W Brown and yellow wire to a terminal post
? Single white wire to a spade connector
One free smaller terminal post has nothing to connect to and I have no rev counter.
I hope all this means something to somebody, the only haynes manual I have at present is for an SD1 V8 which I suspect has completely different wiring.
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The new unit is a Delco Remy DRA3588
A bit of googling shows the W connection as a tacho output
Anyone have a wiring diagram for an 89 V8 to hand ?
Need to know which of the skinny wires does what
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OIne connector should be left unless you have a split charge system IIRC, assuming it's still a compatible alternator.
You need only 2 wires to get the thing charging, the charge wire (battery) and the excitation wire or warning lamp wire. Start by getting these 2 right.
The 3rd wire is for the alternator and the olast one can have a supressor on it IIRC
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The new unit is a Delco Remy DRA3588
A bit of googling shows the W connection as a tacho output
Anyone have a wiring diagram for an 89 V8 to hand ?
Need to know which of the skinny wires does what
If you PM me with an email address I should be able to find one which I can scan in and email for you. Might take a couple of days to dig it out the workshop though.