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OK.. i finally got it fixed... First take a look at this Pic then I will explain my thoughts on this. This is on a 4.6l V8 Motor used in either Ford Explorer or Mercury Mountaineer. In this picture you can see the 2 silver nuts that I put on the bolt that you can adjust your idle with.. I was not able to turn the bolt so I went to parts store and got some nuts that fit the bolt that way I can put two on and one locks the other one in place so I can turn the bolt out. After playing with this for a little I was able to adjust my idle up to 1000rpm when in park and when it is put in gear it drops to 750 rpm. It works great now voltages stay up where they are suppose to be plus higher RMP more amps I get. I really don't know what caused my problem but I am wondering if bass vibration could have possibly slightly moved this bolt causing me to idle lower then normal... which caused volts to drop.. which caused vehicle to die when coming to a stop. It did not take a lot of adjustment to get things back to normal... maybe 1/2 turn would have done it but I went 1 full turn. for anyone that has a 4.6l Ford motor the size of nuts that I had to get were #5 at Auto zone.

1. Yes it is a stock alternator puts out about 135amp but I dont know what it is suppose to do at Idle. 2. I am not going to mess with taking this Alternator off because I am ordering the Mechman Rhino Alt and XS Battery in about a week. Going to need bigger anyway and Thanks I try to check everything out.. . tried to rule each and every part out. my three conclusions above was all I could think of. How ever after looking more I notice there is a small bolt on the back side of the engine that you can adjust the throttle position. I have not done it yet but I was thinking of adjusting that enough that my idle is not so low and in the possess my voltages will be a little higher.

Nice... next one you can do can be called jumpers... For all those that bail out when you turn the beat up.

Can you replace this cable that I have the arrow pointing at?... This is the last thing I can think of. I am assuming that this is the voltage regulator cable. Does the Mechman Rhino Alt come with a new cable to plug in here?

Anyone? I have the whole day off to mess with this thing... I need your guys brain power. Unless you think my assumption is right

Ok.. today I I removed the distribution block on the Negative battery terminal and replaced it with one that can I can bolt down all my connection too... Problem still remains. Keep in mind this did not use to be a problem after I did the big 3 I was able to idel at 14.1 / 14.2 volts... I started noticing the problem when I Switched out my Rockford P6002 amp with a Rockford T10001 amp. Here are some of the things I have tried. 1. Disconnected all the wiring except factory wiring .... Start vehicle up it goes to 13.9 volts until warmed up then drops down to 12.4, put it in gear volts fluctuate between 11.9 and 12.2. 2. Just factory wires with 1/0 from alt to battery... Start vehicle up it goes to 13.9 volts until warmed up then drops down to 12.4, put it in gear volts fluctuate between 11.9 and 12.2. 3. Just factory wires with 1/0 from alt to Fuse Box... Start vehicle up it goes to 13.9 volts until warmed up then drops down to 12.4, put it in gear volts fluctuate between 11.9 and 12.2. 4. Put all my wiring back... 1/0 from Alternator to Positive Terminal fused with 200amp... 1/0 from Positive terminal to Distribution block in car Fused with 150amp... 1/0 Battery Negative terminal to Chassis... 2ga ground from Negative terminal to block... 1/0 from Alt to Chassis...Start vehicle up it goes to 13.9 volts until warmed up then drops down to 12.4, put it in gear volts fluctuate between 11.9 and 12.2. At this point all I can think of is Three things... Voltage regulator in alternator is bad or I blew a diode in the alternator or I have a dead cell in my battery.. Battery is only 2 months old I am getting a Mechman Rhino 250 Alternator and XS D3100 at the first of the month so have to see if the problem still persists after these two upgrades. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Just by chance did you try to ground your radio to where your amp ground is? also if you have 2 battery's is each battery ground to a different location? if so have you tried running a ground wire from main battery to Back battery? I was told by a friend a long time ago that if you have ground noise that you should move all your grounds to 1 point and that will eliminate ground loop noise. just a few thoughts anyway..hope you get it figured out, I know its a pain in the ass.

I want to know how he is getting 40 cents a post

Meet up in Canton this weekend on Sunday... big Car audio show going on. Check the show section... I am going to be there to get metered.

I think I am just a hair over 1 hour from there

Sweet... Illinois people are piling up in here. Looks like the majority are from the North... have to get together sometime. I guess a good meeting point would be around I-80 somewhere I know there is a huge Truck stop up that way somewhere. Of course if anyone can make the Canton Audio competition ill see you there... I will put a tag on my window saying SMD on it.

ok.. well maybe sometime

Sounds like you have the same board as me mine is a gigabyte too.

Go to the show then that will make 3 of us going to be there... boomn89 is actually hosting it.

My board is like this.. 6 sata connection 8 usb ports 2 on board nics 2 fire wire and a whole lot more... I can add up to 4 more USB and 4 more Fire wire ports through the headers on the motherboard.

now try to imagine what we will have 10 years from now 10 years ago we were on Windows 98 and about 600mhz was top speed.

Well since your the host I have a question for you?? I get off work at 8am and plan on picking up a friend and heading out there. all I really want to do is get my vehicle metered.. never had it metered before. When does just the metering start? I dont want to be there all day because I have to sleep sometime, have to be back into work at midnight. Do you have a TL Meter?

I will be there now 3

Sweet... 1 so far There is a competition in Canton Illinois this weekend look in that section of this forum for details.. I am going to be there to get my vehicle metered for the first time.

lol... :01nocomment8so:

Just trying to find anyone from Illinois.. maybe we can lobby to get a SMD Illinois Chapter I am in Peoria, IL... smack dab in the middle.

Congratulations... wish you all the best.

Ticket or Demo good luck with everything

Yes they are on sale this month... I talked to Mechman over the phone for a while. I am buying from him in 2 weeks.

http://www.mecacaraudio.com/flyers/7-19-09IL.pdf That is this coming Sunday... I will be there to get metered myself. hopefully some more of you can make it.