89' pimpScort alternator/battery problems!

[ptupose4]

I was away for two weeks last month and my alternator died. It has a new battery and I went to an auto yard and got another alternator....
I think the amp for my old one was 68, the new one is 75(I think thats what the dude said,) but he said it would still work fine. I went home, installed the thing, and when I went to jump my battery I hooked everything up and when I tried to connect to my batterys positive, an ungodly amount sparks went a flyin (I've jumped my car many times and know that sparks fly....but not like this!) and the battery started smoking like crazy. It doesn't take a genious to realize that something is very wrong, but at the same time, I have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on!!! Anybody have any tips or isight into what the problem is??!?!?!?!

[hondahappy86]

fellow scort owner....did you check your connections....make shure their clean....the amperage makes no diffrence...in fact if you have a system a higher amperage alternator is better...saves on battery drain....but a ford alternator has plastic clips...i know because i work for a junkyard and pull many of them regularly....they cant be reversed or backwards because they only go on one way....so either take them back the alternator and have it exchanged or buy a new one because somthin sounds wrong with the one you have....well hope this helps

[Chrisser]

your grounded somewhere~! posibly where the positive wire hooks to the alt~!