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1997 Chevrolet Camaro Repair Question


Topics covered: Terminal, Battery, Test light.
Mileage: 197,000 miles.

Asked on January 24, 2012

1997 camaro rs missing adapter to alternator

It has a wire going to the batt. the replacement part has 4 wires but i only have one cut wire near the alternator. I need to know where the wires are located and how to connect to the adapter.

Answer

Replied on January 25, 2012

What replacement part? What kind of adapter? You only need a single wire, usually brown, in the plug, and the fat battery wire bolted to the terminal on the back, to make it work.

Tiny Answered by caradiodoc (expert)
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Replied on January 25, 2012

See below

Tiny Answered by rasmataz
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Replied on January 25, 2012

I went to autozone and they showed a pic of the connector and it had 4 wires, thank you for the reply.

Tiny Response from brandonbshortyam
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Replied on January 26, 2012

here is the connector, which wire do i connect to the brown one?

Tiny Response from brandonbshortyam
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Replied on January 26, 2012

I can't remember which terminal is the right one but if there are letters, (f, s, p, l), molded onto the plug, you want terminal "L" for the dash light.

Two of the other terminals are not used. Terminal "P" is only used on diesel engine for the tach signal. If there's no letters molded onto the plug or cast onto the housing, when you connect the car's brown wire to the correct terminal, the battery light should turn on when the ignition switch is turned on. You can do the same thing with a test light. Connect the ground clip to the battery's positive terminal, then touch the probe to the wires in the plug. When you touch the right terminal, the test light will light up indicating it's trying to turn on the system. At that point the generator will start working when the engine is running, and the test light will be turned off.

You can also just look at another generator on a car in any salvage yard or used car lot.

Tiny Answered by caradiodoc (expert)
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Replied on January 26, 2012

Thanks for the help people, been trying to figure this out for awhile and nobody local has seemed to know or want to help.

Tiny Response from brandonbshortyam
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