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Alternator woes?

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Bigjoe980

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Well, first of all, new to this here forum! Anyways I recently replaced my fuel pump assembly in my 98gtp since the last one finally gave up at 164k miles (was fairly disapointed in it, considering my 1988 GMC c/k 1500 ext cab&bed made it to 789384 on mostly stock parts when the odometer stopped working... ... In 2004!)

in the process of the pump dying I think I may have over cranked it a bit to much (would start on ocassion and die within a minute) now that I got a new pump in and got moving again the alternator charges.

but after a bit I start to smell what reminds me of a vacuum set to damn high, electricity and melting rubber. The smoke happens less and less now (fourth day so far) when I let it idle a bit for testing. Anyone have any ideas on why it'd be doing such? Because I've yet to EVER see an alternator smoke, and still charge things fine. The belt seems as okay as one would expect for it's age, but no burn spots. Belt isn't over tightened from what I can tell either. On a side note though, my god that new fuel pump helped! It's back to throwing me into the rear seat.

Unfortunately at the moment I can't really do much testing on it tool wise. My tools keep "mysteriously" disappearing and a little empty in the wallet at the moment, so just thoughts an suggestions alone are appreciated
 
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I'd look around the engine bay for anything touching something it's not supposed to or rubbing the belt
 
If the engine bay isn't clean, clean it and finding things will be easier. I find most smells come from things touching exhaust manifolds. Perhaps something is trapped between that stupid heat shield and the pipes... leaves, bugs, nests, a dropped snippet of wire... Also, look for fluid leaks after the cleaning.
 
Hmm, I did check for things touching some more. So far the smell and smoke (Thanks to a few helping eyes and noses, ha) which is a very light white smoke, it's been tracked explicitly to the alternator... Namely the vents. I know at first I thought I f&@/ed a fuel line up since it was right after the pump change. It seems to be going the deathly path of all the R/C car motors. >.<
 
Oh you do? Cool, sounds better then spending what little I have on some POS alt. from autozone here (shudders) lemme know what you want for it an I'll see what I can do! Thanks
 


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