We all have those electrical woes one time or another, so there's no reason to worry about them ... I remember a while back some fun with a John Deere engine ... The alternator would go out, and it turns out the "energizing" wire on the alternator was failing and was shorting out the alternator and destroying it. That mystical blue smoke began to get kinda' costly. Glad you got it working better!

1959 Chevrolet 3100 Stepside Apache
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