I am doing some work on my brothers 95 DI (changing fluids) when I started to notice a faint electrical "whine" that was periodically coming from under the hood. I finally tracked it down to coming from inside the altenator. The noise seems to come on for 5 seconds and then go off for 5 seconds, but it is very faint, almost what you would hear a door chime do if the battery on a car was extremely low. The battery is at full charge, and everything seems to be ok.
A little history though, back in July his altenator went bad, so I bought and installed a rebuilt bosch unit from somewhere, that ended up dying within another month. I got it exchanged and installed the second one about a month ago, but since then no one has been driving the vehicle, so it hasn't got much use. The car is completely stock with no electrics added on, just has the factory keyless entry, and is an OBD-1 vehicle.
Anybody have any ideas what might be causing this noise? It is kind of concerning me, because of the recent altenator problems.
--Also speaking of the keyless entry it works but only if you put the remote on the glass of the vehicle, the range is completely non existant. We replaced the battery, but it didn't help, can anyone tell me where the keyless reciever is located, so I can see if anything is out of place there as well?
Thanks
-Stuart
A little history though, back in July his altenator went bad, so I bought and installed a rebuilt bosch unit from somewhere, that ended up dying within another month. I got it exchanged and installed the second one about a month ago, but since then no one has been driving the vehicle, so it hasn't got much use. The car is completely stock with no electrics added on, just has the factory keyless entry, and is an OBD-1 vehicle.
Anybody have any ideas what might be causing this noise? It is kind of concerning me, because of the recent altenator problems.
--Also speaking of the keyless entry it works but only if you put the remote on the glass of the vehicle, the range is completely non existant. We replaced the battery, but it didn't help, can anyone tell me where the keyless reciever is located, so I can see if anything is out of place there as well?
Thanks
-Stuart