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Actually, carbon is an easy fix! If you can get to the throttle body, or whatever it has and pour something in it. Take a pop bottle and fill it half with trany fluid and half with warm water, shake it up and pour it in while it's running. You will have to kick the throttle up now and again, and...

Dieseling can be caused by several things, too much advance in the timing, too much fuel, carbs too rich, idle speed set to high or a combination of all of them.

Laugh all you want, that was how I was taught to do a quick test. Only so much you can keep up with it seems!

No need, Just got off the phone. I have to eat crow, I stand corrected. Sorry. Do NOT disconnect the battery to test the alt!

I'll do some research on this. So what happens in the instance I cited, the battery goes tits up and you need to get it home?

Not sure where you got that, if you disconnect the battery and it fries the computer you've got a lot bigger problems going on! The alt already has built in regulation and wont supply any more power than needed. It's no different than getting a jump start on the day your battery died and driving...

Lots of ways to get the idle up on the truck, you can put a board under the gas pedal then a brick on top of it and adjust to get the idle speed you want, around 2kRPM. Use a choke cable to adjust it where you want etc. keep it simple. The battery charger would be my last resort, but that's me.

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Not always, if the alternator can't keep up with the demands on it these new cars wont run! Remember everything is computer controlled now days! In fact that's an easy way to test an alternator now days. Disconnect the positive battery terminal while the car is running, if it dies, the alt is...

I've seen Chevy alternators get to the point you couldn't pull start the vehicle, just locked the engine up! To run that winch off of 110v, it's gonna be a PITA! You will need something like this...