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    Can a bad battery damage an alternator?

    I have the problem all squared away. I bummed a ride to the Canadian tire in town from the nice old lady who lives next door (I live 30km out in the country) where my car was abandoned and the store conveniently had a new battery and alternator in stock for me. I had my tow service, which was...
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    Can a bad battery damage an alternator?

    That's exactly how I thought it should go. Which in my case then the alternator should be almost certainly fried.
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    Can a bad battery damage an alternator?

    If it was just the battery, shouldn't the alternator have been able to keep the engine running assuming the alternator was ok? Or would a bad battery break the circuit and prevent that from happening?
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    Can a bad battery damage an alternator?

    I have a 2004 Pontiac Sunfire with 345,000km (214,000mi) which I have had to abandon tonight and take a cab home. It was the classic signs of a dead alternator, voltage drops, won't start and eventually dead. The battery light came on intermittently so I parked at my local Canadian Tire and...
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    Help bleeding Ecotec clutch slave

    I have the clutch line changed and the air all out as best as I can tell. The squeak is still there. I'm starting to think it may have already being squeaking like that before the repair as it is not easy to hear it when the engine is idling, and not at all once driving. The squeak comes from...
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    Help bleeding Ecotec clutch slave

    I have a 2004 Pontiac Sunfire with the 2.2 Ecotec engine. So I replaced the notorious clutch hydraulic line that had warn through against the electrical harness bracket it rubs against. I'll save the details of the whole process but now it comes time to fill and bleed the system. Many...
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