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Just got the generator rebuilt and after it starts gen 1 light stays on but dim, as you accelerate it gets brighter and stays bright while driving. then at adle its dim. what gives.
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ida34
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Only when it has had a really hard collision with a cucv. If this is a cucv you should have two alternators. Did you have the driver's side or the passenger's side rebuilt? The driver's side is the one that shows up as Gen1.
trooper632
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ok, it was a typo. This is a cucv M1009 blazer I am talking about
trooper632
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It was the drivers side that was rebuilt, I had a coulpe rebuilt now that u mention it. Does it matter if you put one on the opposite.
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on a related topic I was curious if anyone knows why the military chooses to call them "gen 1 gen 2" when they are altenators? To my knowledge chevy hasn't used a generator since the 60's
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but its true !!!
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Yes, it matters. One can go on the other, but not vice versa. I can't remember off the top of my head which way though. (EDIT: This only applies if you're replacing one of the alternators with a civilian unit - if the one they rebuilt is isolated ground, it doesn't matter which side it's on) Obviously though, if your gen light is on, something is wrong.
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im having the same problem cleaned every connection i could find all fuses and the sockets cleaned took dash cluster outand cleaned it,every ground scratched clean i took alt 1 apart changed diode tri as per anouther thread but still no luck only thing i can find wrong is when runnig alt 1 only puts out 14.60 to 14.55 while alt 2 puts out 14.7 is this the rectifier or brushes going bad? (hind site is i should have just put new every thing but im cheap) and yes i have new batteries new belts and truck only has 5500 og miles its a 1031 and im stuck next is rebuild the alt 1 ??????? please help!!!!!!light is bright at first gets dim turn fan on light gets 75% headlights plus fan 90% bright turn signals pulsate light with blinkin