ZVOLV
<Master Tech>
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2002
- Location
- California
Make sure it's milliamps you're reading. 0.200A is 200 milliamps. Seems like you got it...
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The ground is an approx 10 guage BLUE wire coming off the back of the alt.
You could have a blown bulb in the cluster.
A test lamp should illuminate. Or, yes, the batt light should illuminate if you touch it to a good ground.
Yes, you quoted a voltage drop test. Go from alt case to a good block ground with the meter, start engine. What's the results? If it's 200+ mV = bad ground. If it's several VOLTS, or all the volts, it's a VERY bad ground.
GL. For a TB with such a recent join date you are doing well. Your skill level seems pretty good.
so my ground wire completely fell of my alternator... not sure how that happened??? it must not've been bolted down. does it matter which bolt I use to ground it?
For the OP: the IAC really isn't designed to be dis-assembled. Since you've seen bad measurements, it was mis-aligned at some point. It might have been permanently damaged at the same time. You should be able to gently move the vane back and forth through the air nipple, or you can twist the whole assembly quickly in your hand to get vane to move. There's no centering spring in it. If it doesn't move smoothly and easily, I'd replace the IAC.
it was only after I cleaned the throttle body and removed it from the car that the idle got high.