LET THE GAMES BEGIN

i had exactly the same problem with my 92'hilux. except my car had been idling high for a while before the alt blew or maybe the batt was fully charged and it had gone previously??
what is the general cause of the alt going? earlier that night i pulled a bit of rubber off my tyres. the high revs would have blown the rectifyer?

cheers konrad
perth,westaus

yeah it was doing it at idle too....i could drive like 30 mph without even touching that gas pedal. the rpms would climb pretty high just sitting at a stop light...i had to keep my foot on the brake and let the clutch out a lil bit to make the rpms go down. i ended up having it towed later on when i got done with school but yeah...it was explained to me like this: when the alternator goes out and the battery starts to get low on power, the motor thinks there is a shortage on power so it will spin the motor faster to compansate for the power loss and try to regain it back...but because the alternator was bad and my battery was getting low it was idling high and couldnt charge anything.

man that green is cool

yeah exactly the same thing.haha. oh well guess my car's not going anywhere for a little while.
nice green by the way. clean!!

cheers

looks puurrrrdy