Good information sir! Glad you are pursuing your own venture! It might just inspire others including myself to take the leap! Why choose plasma and powder coating if I may? Will there be DrivewayEngineer branded items available for purchase in the future?
No one powder coats withing 30 miles or so of me, it's fairly easy, I speak with a lot of people who all travel to do it. Pretty low cost to start up as well. Same with plasma really, it's not super high cost to get started, I'm already familiar with CNC and manufacturing, should come pretty naturally to me. Unlike automotive ventures, neither really require me to play 20 questions with someone who really just wants me to tell them how to do shit for free, vs paying me to do it for them.
@@TheDrivewayEngineer I like the idea and it sounds like there is market for the service and product. Very good point on not getting pumped and prodded for free info that usually already exists. I am also in manufacturing and there is even a market for just cutting down material to size for manufacturers especially when they get behind in their shop.
You got to let the battery voltage come to rest before you get a accurate measurement of resting voltage. You got some damn good wiring to be charging at 14.6.
So, I have an additional question. At night, when using extra power for lights, etc, the voltage slowly begins dropping as I drive. Starts at 14.5ish, then drops as low as mid 12s the more items that are used/the longer I drive. Should I be looking to replace the alternator on my swap soon?
So my truck has been together for 4 years, I finally got a dash-mounted ODII heads-up screen because the 10 year old GPS that I was using for a speedometer died. I had been watching the voltage on the dash and it has been in the same place the whole time, right about straight up. The ODBII volt gauge shows around 13.2 and when it is cold in the morning it will drop down to around 12.8 even going down the highway. My harness is a stock gen3 harness that was reworked. I feel it should be charging higher going down the road... Alternator bad or what? Thanks for another good video.
@@TheDrivewayEngineer LOL yeah but it seems to have gotten worse the last few weeks of daily driving it. The battery seems to be getting weak I think, it was my spare battery that I used to leave on the trailer for the winch, but then the battery that was in the truck sat for 6 months while I was doing the stepside bed swap, so I charged up the winch battery and put it in the truck lol
Great info in this video Some one asked me was I gonna run the Holley terminator on my new totally stock build no thank you 😂 I would not venture down that road u less I was racing .
@@LSCHEVYRYDER254 I mean, that's literally my thought process Everytime I have the money to buy one... I could go buy a whole other truck with this money! And I do 🤣
All the 470 ohm resistor is doing is simulating the alternator fault indicator light bulb filament on the excitation circuit to the regulator. They work well like this, and that is the normal operating voltage for a properly operating "12 volt" automotive charging system. Aircraft using the same battery chemistry and cell count call it a 14 volt system, I have no idea why automotive usage calls it out at the low end of the resting voltage range.
There's no ticking, it's a joke, all these "measure for custom pushrods" guys seem to have ticking, then tell everyone it's normal lol. Meanwhile my junk runs as quietly as the cam and exhaust allows
@@TheDrivewayEngineer Yeah I get it. I don't know how to dress my mind to english. But someone "could" have spent 8k to valvet rain, heads, intake etc. So that what I ment. "Stick with stock"
@@TheDrivewayEngineer English for me tend to be sometimes very clear and sometimes I think "Did I spell everything right or does everyone think now that I'm a complete moron" Which of course I am 🙂
