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Old 11-01-2014, 02:42 PM   #110 (permalink)
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You will want to replace that battery soon as you are overworking that alternator for long periods of time to try to charge a bad battery. So your alternator is dragging your mileage down because it's always trying to draw 14v to charge instead of 12.5 to maintain
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