My battery light comes on I can rev the motor and it will go out?

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2004 GMC CANYON
239,000 MILES

My battery light comes on I can rev the motor and it will go out. I checked voltage at battery when light is on 11.9 volts rev engine light goes out and stays out with 14 volts what is my problem

Monday, January 14th, 2013 AT 1:56 PM

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KASEKENNY

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More than likely you have an alternator that is failing. This means we need to test the alternator and it sounds like you already have but here are a couple guides that will help with this:

https://youtu.be/Z-p4dMJUpUw

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-check-a-car-alternator

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-replace-an-alternator

I am attaching the process below on how to replace the alternator as I suspect this is the issue.

Please run through this and let me know what you find. Thanks

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