At 03:36 PM 3/27/2011, Greg Potts wrote:
>After all of this it appears I had a bad spare alternator. It looks
>brand new but has been sitting on the shelf for a couple years and
>my local rebuilder recommends against that. When I ground the blue
>wire I get a light on the dash. My ammeter reads about .2A of
>current when placed between the blue wire and ground.

I can't imagine why an alternator would go bad sitting on the shelf,
but you have just described a correctly working ALT light circuit, so
if the connection is good that puts it down to the alternator.

But make certain it's not a subtle connection problem.

Cheers,
d