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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 06:09 PM
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Definately wouldn't have guessed they could even get that close and stand highly corrected. Glad you got it ironed out, would have sucked to come out to your car to see a bunch of fire trucks hosing it down .
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 06:11 PM
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He did say alternator...which didn't make sense but i believed he meant to say starter....
Well mechanically the wire from the starter runs to the alternator I believe.

Info not provided in this thread is that it is a Buschur LICP that ARC'd the starter.
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 06:15 PM
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No...you were right! lol...it was the Starter and Turbo Outlet....just like everyone said...the alternator is too far away from the turbo outlet for it to touch it...but i did discover another problem lol...now i know why my oil pressure sensor went bad lol, and it had to do with the alternator! my buddy who installed the oil pressure sensor did a half *** job and just left all the wires hanging there and the wires are all next to the alternator pulley...he left the oil pressure wires right next to the pulley and the pulley just mutilated the wires! i think i can just cut the bad part off and just put new wire in there, some 14 gauge wire and just souder some wire in there.... can i do that? somethin is tellin me yes, somethin is tellin me no...help??

And NO, i don't have a buschur LICP, i have a bushcur deluxe fmic which deletes the fmic, and just goes straight to outlet pipe...it was in no way buschur's fault
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 06:18 PM
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hahaha wow man... good luck... you are a funny ****.. lol
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 06:31 PM
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so? any input on whether i can just souder some wire in the area that got burned off by the alternator pulley?
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 06:38 PM
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i think you could get away with that yea... also some zip ties/clamps/electrical tape... anything.. just do a clean job.. make sure it wont happen again...
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 06:45 PM
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From my personal experience...

***THIS***



***PLUS THIS***



***= THIS***





Any questions!?
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 07:09 PM
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haha i showed this thread to my friends because they always give me **** for having a fire extinguisher in my car
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 07:48 PM
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haha, wow sorry man but that was WAY worse than what happened to me...i just put some electrical tape over the wiring that came in touch with my turbo outlet(which by the way looked fine, just a little burn mark), and I'm fine, and I just tapped in some extra wire in the area where the old wire got burned down, and it works perfectly! so everything solved so far! now waiting for more problems to arise from my car!
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 07:54 PM
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yea, i might start looking for a fire extinguisher now because i can't even imagine what i would do if this turned into a bigger fire....
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 09:04 PM
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We turn the car over and it runs fine, and I drive it home fine.


You one brave ****.
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 09:10 PM
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haha, well i wasn't about to wait for "triple A Towing" for 4 hours or pay our local towing 150 bucks to tow my car 1 min away, as i lived 2 miles away!
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 09:26 PM
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haha, well i wasn't about to wait for "triple A Towing" for 4 hours or pay our local towing 150 bucks to tow my car 1 min away, as i lived 2 miles away!
Yup, your Polish....

I would have done the same
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 09:29 PM
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HAHAHA lol, how da **** did you know?!
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 09:38 PM
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HAHAHA lol, how da **** did you know?!
Because I'm the guy with the WW Evo that is at Hugh garage sometimes
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