jbl 1201.1 problem HELP!!

[breakjunki]

Well Guys.. 3 days and about 300 bucks later I'm of and runnin.. upgraded the big three plus a 170 amp ho alternator.. no voltage drop now... plus i really got to see what the 1201's capable of.. that amps got some power behind it.. appreciate the help..

[GlassWolf]

a HO alternator makes quite a difference, doesn't it?

[Fishy]

You get that motor city reman jobby?

I'm real happy with mine especially at the price I paid. It has a smaller pulley and I initially had some belt squeak up until things got warmed up. That happens very rarely now.

One problem I did have was upgrading the alternator power wire. You need to utilize a very small ring connector at the alternator to keep from shorting things out on the housing. I ended up using a standard 4 gauge replacement cable from Advance Auto Parts and grinding the end terminal down until it fit(awfully darn thin now, hehe). I really didn't want to cut up the original wiring just in case I ever "upgrade" to another Explorer and want to take the stuff with me so I left the original wiring in place and ran the new wiring in parallel(4 gauge + 6 gauge = ?). The stock alt wire also runs through a pair of fusable links. This worried me and again I didn't want to cut things up to run through that so I just installed an el cheapo 150 amp ANL fuse and holder at the battery.

I'm in the process of upgrading to 1/0 gauge power wiring, but due the difficulty of adding even 4 gauge to the alternator I think I'll just leave things as they are there. I'm only running about 1000 watts total anyways.

If you ran 1/0 to your alternator I'd surely be interested on how you managed it.

:)

-Fishy

[GlassWolf]

I'll show ya how to do it for tree fitty

[Ryan from Ohio]

Im mo expensive

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