Ok the Alt. is in, just need to wire, out of the FD alt. there is a fat wire and skinny wire coming out of the plug.
And on my S4 there is 2 wires one black w/ a white stripe, and one white with a black stripe.
which to which
Thanks in advance

 

Didn't I pm you with the details of Installation?

Match thickness of wires respectively.
Ie.
thick>thick
thin>thin

Fini!

 

Also, please solder and heat shrink the former cut wires aswell.

 

Hey Tony, the wires are the same size, I sat there for 5 minutes lookin at the wires to see which one was bigger, there the same

 

What colour stripes are on each of the wires?

 

<--- Readies special bomb package to send to Tony

 

Umm, I dont get It Sanford. Am I In trouble?

 

You will be if I run into these problems! heheh

 

Ok the Alt. is in, just need to wire, out of the FD alt. there is a fat wire and skinny wire coming out of the plug.
And on my S4 there is 2 wires one black w/ a white stripe, and one white with a black stripe.
which to which
Thanks in advance

 

HELP!!!

 

The black wire goes to the top.

 

Okay. I'm finding It a tad bit difficult to understand you. Perhaps I'm thinking to hard.

You are saying there Is a thick and thin wire coming out of the Harness Plug I provided you with? If so, see It as thick being positive and thin being your ground.

As for your cut wires of the stock Harness, bring out the DMM and set It on voltage and determain which wires are your 12v source. Just take the ground probe and place It on the negative termanial of the Battery. With the Key ON, touch each probe, one by one until you see a reading of 12v or higher on your DMM. Thats It.

 

Ok, that wont work, my batterys dead...
But is the black usually the Pos. and what will happen if I plug it on wrong.
This is what I did, I put the Fat wire on the Alt and plugged it into the Blk wire and turned the key and everything as far as radio and lights worked, does that mean Im good. Cant find out till I get a jump

 

THIS SUCKS!!! ok, I wired it wrong I know because I blew my main fuses, holy **** this blows.....

 

Fully charge your battery with a battery charger - NOT the alternator. This is the quickest way to kill your new alternator.



-billy

 

Kool, just got a new battery today, Im still not 100% on the wires though, is black with a white stripe the Positive or neg.??

 

first you know there are 3 wires right? there is the big pos wire as well as the plug with 2 small ones

 

Yeah I already did the big one, know I just have the two from the harness Im concerned about.
Trying to figure out if the blk is pos. or the white is pos.

 

You are making this harder on yourself...

I can't be much help to you at this point. Try wiring It up the one way. If no fuse blows, proceed to solder, heat shrink tube wrap and forget about It. Should the fuse blow, you know you have to replace the fuse and switch the wires around. Done.

For future referance, please line up the plugs accordingly, prior to cutting them, respectively.

 

Oh trust me, dont misinterpret my response for panic and dismay, its not that big of a deal, in fact I really dont care.......
Its hard to work on my car at 2 in the morning due to my apt. so I'll just troubleshoot tommorow, I just wanted to know if the blk wire is positive or neg on the S4 harness. because they are exactly the same size. Thanks for your help though,
I also had to get spacers for the Top mount intercooler and buy a bigger connector for the FD ground wire due to it being a different size. Its not just plug and play, it requires a little more work, but well worth it.
Still 100% satisfied with the Alt.

 

you guys got a connector plug with wires? silver how come mine didnt come with them? I need one to plug the FD alt to the S4 connector.
thanks

 

No sweat. As mentioned before, I had none at the time. I still have your mailing address and will gladly send out the connector tomorrow with this weeks FD Alternator Kits. Cool?

 

Yo! Tony Soll no go man. How long does it usually take to get a kit to the US? The tracking number reveals its still in canada.

 

it took 12 days to get me in Texas

 

this may be a stupid question to ask now but is installing an fd alt on an s4 a really big pain in the ***? are there any special adaptations that have to be made?