I'm embarrassed to admit I can't find the voltage regulator on my 84 LeBaron 2.2 Turbo.
I had a bad battery drain and had the charging system checked. They told me the battery was in fact bad (or had become bad since I last had it checked a couple of months ago) and that the diodes were fine but the voltage regulator was no good.
The battery was completely free under warranty, but the AZ guy and I couldn't find the voltage regulator on the car.
The DSM says it's a separate rectangular unit bolted on the passenger firewall. Nope, can't find it anywhere I know some alternators have internal voltage regulators (in fact, every alternator I've ever changed did), but that should not be the case on this model, according to the service manual.
The alternator is a Bosch with both Bosch and Chrysler labels on it.
Just in case the charging system was changed at some point in the past to an alternator with a regulator, I looked at pictures of the various internal regulators on Rock Auto and they don't look like anything protruding from the alternator on the car.
Any advice?
I had a bad battery drain and had the charging system checked. They told me the battery was in fact bad (or had become bad since I last had it checked a couple of months ago) and that the diodes were fine but the voltage regulator was no good.
The battery was completely free under warranty, but the AZ guy and I couldn't find the voltage regulator on the car.
The DSM says it's a separate rectangular unit bolted on the passenger firewall. Nope, can't find it anywhere I know some alternators have internal voltage regulators (in fact, every alternator I've ever changed did), but that should not be the case on this model, according to the service manual.
The alternator is a Bosch with both Bosch and Chrysler labels on it.
Just in case the charging system was changed at some point in the past to an alternator with a regulator, I looked at pictures of the various internal regulators on Rock Auto and they don't look like anything protruding from the alternator on the car.
Any advice?