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Old 12-31-2009, 04:42 PM
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Re: Make Sure Your Mechanic Knows How To Relpace An Alternator

It looks more like the B+ wire shorted out on some metal and made the battery overheat/boil which released a ton of Hydrogen which in in turn caused the battery to explode and start catching all sorts of stuff on fire. Not to mention the B+ wire for the alternator probably got hot enough to ignite just about anything it was touching. My guess is that it was contacting the firewall which would have caused the insulation to burn causing the dash to melt down like that.
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