Thanks. Yes it has an alternator. I had to pull one of the wires going to the coil to shut off the motor this morning when the key didn't do the job. So you seem to be onto something with you touching wires feeding the coil. I didn't touch anything other than pushing my hands up into the tight space under that dash to mount the two speed adapter which didn't work either when I was done! I'll look at the wires again in the morning to see if I screwed that up as you post makes sense. Thanks :-)