chargerbandit

Battery is 1 year old, 55Ah and it had this problem since it was new... in an ideal situation I would try another battery when I get my hands on it.

I peeled back the insulation on the blue wire and the wires are great, I noticed when the wire is unplugged and ignition on it has 12v, as soon as I plug it onto the alternator it only has 1 volt?

Took off the blue wire, rigged up another wire on that terminal and touched the battery 12v wire that goes on the alternator and it works, guess there is a short in the blue wire since the car also started pretty rough until the car started charging, doesn't happen if I don't hook up the blue wire. Going to run a separate new switched 12v to the alternator and problem solved then.

So I am having this problem for a while now on my 1990 Favorit, when I start up the car the battery light stays on and the battery is not charging (approx 12v at the battery), as soon as I rev the engine up above like 3000rpm the light goes off and the battery starts charging (14v). I have just replaced the alternator with a new one and the problem is the same, any ideas? Grounds look fine.

Looked at the intake pipe and turns out something broke inside of it so the flap was always sucking in exhaust air so I just permanently set it to closed, seems to help a lot. Still a bit rich I feel because I can smell it.

Winter mode?

Thanks for the info, I just find it weird because this never happened on my old Favorit and it was a really beat up and neglected one. I do feel like it is running a bit rich - black condensation from the exhaust and sometimes when I want to accelerate from a stop theres no response from the gas, kicks in like a second later.

So my Fav has been running good for a while now, drives good but I'm having a problem where it wont start hot, need to crank it for a bit and hold the throttle open for a few seconds and then it slowly starts up. I have replaced my carb base gasket again, got my hands on a metal plate one because the rubber ones just seem too sketchy to me. Also replaced the idle cutoff valve. If I drive it around and shut it off, it doesnt want to start up. Fires up cold no problem. Any ideas?

Hi everyone. I just put my motor back together after years of sitting, used to run fine but I wanted to regasket everything and I had to replace one cylinder. I didnt mess with the timing chain or anything but I did resurface the head, did the seats of the valves etc all of the good stuff. Now Ive put it back together and it wont fire up, it did sputter and backfire for a bit but now nothing. I pumped fuel with the manual pump and there is fuel, also took the feed from the carb off and when cranking there is fuel... but looking into the carb when cranking there is no fuel coming in? Also pumping the manual pump I could see fuel coming out the top of the carb for a while but now pumping manually does nothing unless I take the hose off the carb, then it starts pumping again. Also possible electrical issue? I think I have connected everything right, I put the distributor back on the way it was but even when the crank pulley is at 0 the marking on the distributor case is not aligned with the rotor arm? I do have spark. Thanks for any tips.