Ok So I replaced the alternator saturday as I had been having a flickering battery light for 3 weeks now.
Drove it for about 5 minutes after alternator was replaced no flickering.
Parked the car, ran into a shop, came out and drove the car again. The bugger was back.

No more squeal from that area but there is still a 'clicking' when my foot is on the accelerator.

Its not as bad as previous and it only flickers now and then @2500-3500 revs or when they drop too low in a gear.

Now I was thinking next move was to replace the belt but could it be a duff battery as it does look very old! (The battery)
But the alternator (new one) is testing at high enough volts and the battery did charge from 13.3 to 13.4 while we were testing the volts on it.

What would be the more likely culprit. What would you change first?
(the tensioner has had new bearings recently too)

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Poor Orange Si is hurt. Started first time after sitting for 3 weeks and with virtually no petrol in it

see if you can borrow a mates battery, when my alternator decided to snap my belt the light came straight on, but after replacing the belt and tightening everything down its now fine. hope this helps. Ash

Don't batteries have different voltages/watts depending on the car its for?

If they do then I have no one to borrow one from as no one else but me drives a fez.

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1 way to sum up the 197 is like sex, you build upto the best bit and when it eventually happens it only last a few seconds but you always want to do it again!
Poor Orange Si is hurt. Started first time after sitting for 3 weeks and with virtually no petrol in it

ah true say try the belt first as its only £2.99 then if it stay on i would say odd on your battery.

check there aint a breaki n the blue thin wire mate i cant remeber if its on the starter motor or alternator i had it once turned out to be the blue wire

what fezzy said check that blue wire that run across the slam panel

as for the clicking does it happen when the car is ideling? do you know what area its in? might be the cambelt tensioner?

No noise when idling. Its not as loud as it was with the old alternator on. I can only hear it with the windows down. Noise coming from the right side of the car.

Mark did say it might be an electrical fault. Great gonna have to bribe him again
Unless I can nab his or my uncles trolley jack. Wires I can handle

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1 way to sum up the 197 is like sex, you build upto the best bit and when it eventually happens it only last a few seconds but you always want to do it again!
Poor Orange Si is hurt. Started first time after sitting for 3 weeks and with virtually no petrol in it

Any 12v battery would do. The Ampage rating is only maximum output the battery can give. Think of volts as what the battery forces out, amps is what things ask from a battery. You could fit a 2 kilo-watt battery if you wanted.

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If the wire is fine then I'll have try a battery.

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1 way to sum up the 197 is like sex, you build upto the best bit and when it eventually happens it only last a few seconds but you always want to do it again!
Poor Orange Si is hurt. Started first time after sitting for 3 weeks and with virtually no petrol in it

Just remember not to borrow a 24v van battery. That's what killed a neighbours car, even though it had less amps than his battery, the volts is what killed it.

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I will definitely remember that. Really wouldn't be pleased if I killed it.

Anyway got under the car just now and traced the blue wire from its beginning and as far as I could and it appeared to be in good order.
This is the correct wire right?


So thats not the problem if its the correct wire. Leaves me with the battery and belt being the culprits. I'm going to go battery first as I have a sneaking suspicion that its likely the one.

On another not What is this??


It was lose in the engine bay above what appear to be the horn (blue plastic thing) So I removed it (as it seriously wasn't attached to anything)

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1 way to sum up the 197 is like sex, you build upto the best bit and when it eventually happens it only last a few seconds but you always want to do it again!
Poor Orange Si is hurt. Started first time after sitting for 3 weeks and with virtually no petrol in it

It's an air duct, taking air in from below the headlight, to the air filter box which then has the obvious duct over the rocker cover.

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Guessing that needs to go back on it then. Where abouts on the engine is it located normally. Probably not far from where it was caught.

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1 way to sum up the 197 is like sex, you build upto the best bit and when it eventually happens it only last a few seconds but you always want to do it again!
Poor Orange Si is hurt. Started first time after sitting for 3 weeks and with virtually no petrol in it

i have never seen the si airbox before so it's only a guess but have a look on the bottom half of the airbox for a hole big enough for the round end to fit in. be the look of how it bends it should be on the left handside of the airbox as you look at it from the front of the car

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To rebuild?

hmm ok will have to attempt this on saturday as I have to drive it down the coast that day as well and it needs to go back on

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1 way to sum up the 197 is like sex, you build upto the best bit and when it eventually happens it only last a few seconds but you always want to do it again!
Poor Orange Si is hurt. Started first time after sitting for 3 weeks and with virtually no petrol in it

hope you get the flicking light sorted, if not then just flick it back and see how it likes it

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To rebuild?

I'm sure I'll get it to stop eventually. I'm just going to end up replacing everything else first before it stops. Its always the last thing you change

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1 way to sum up the 197 is like sex, you build upto the best bit and when it eventually happens it only last a few seconds but you always want to do it again!
Poor Orange Si is hurt. Started first time after sitting for 3 weeks and with virtually no petrol in it

might be worth just checking that non of the connections are rusty or gunked up

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To rebuild?

take the bulb out no more flickering on and off

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the alternator is the right one isnt it? there are 2 types. 1. 65w 2. 70w dont no why that would make a diffenece but it could do something. lol sorry but hope this helps

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