Looking for charging system schematics

[Matthews]

I have a situation where I am swapping an early 99 engine into a 2002 truck. I don't have the 2002 engine wiring harness so I am using the 99 harness. There are some pin differences. The ones I can see are where spots don't have pins in them and there are only a few of those differences. From what I can tell, one of those pin changes is related to the alternator. I decided to give it a try and the truck runs seemingly fine aside from not charging. The battery light stays on and I have no output from the alternator. Investigating this I looked on autozone to see if the alternator part numbers are the same. They do show the same for 99 and 2002. But in 2003 with a 7.3 they are showing an externally regulated alternator. That seems strange but I thought maybe they made that change in late 02 or something. When I looked at other parts websites, they still claimed that they were internally regulated so I don't know if that is a mistake on autozone.

My main goal here is to get some wiring schematics specifically for the charging system that definitely shows wiring colors and it would be great if I could get the connector diagrams as well showing pin positions in the connectors. I think it's all available on all data but I don't have access to it. Can anyone help me out and supply some wiring schematics and any other info they may know?

Thanks

[Matthews]

Can anyone help me out here? This is the only thing keeping this truck from seeing he road.

[Lincoln_Rig]

I'm looking for the same thing without luck at the moment....

[Matthews]

I found the info. If you give me am email address to send to I will email it to you. It's for a 2002

[NoRalPh]

Originally Posted by Matthews

I found the info. If you give me am email address to send to I will email it to you. It's for a 2002

Is this what you're trying to keep to yourself?

https://sites.google.com/site/woodnt...iring-diagrams

Why would you just not share that info for the next guy????

[Lincoln_Rig]

Thanks for the link NoRalph.
What I have is a 99 F550, I've checked both small wires (switched and censor) with a multimeter, they read roughly the same as the batteries. However if I try any sort of load on them, eg. my test light, voltage is gone and they will not power the light.
Ohms test shows no resistance between alternator and connector on valve cover. After that I have traced the switch wire to the batt. light in the dash.......quite frustrated at this point

[NoRalPh]

I'm not sure what it is you're seeing, you have battery voltage (engine OFF or ON?) at the Alt's sm terminals. BUT if you add the load of the testlight the voltage drops to "0". Does the light come on for a split-second and dim orange and then to nothing too?

Again, I never tried that, not sure why that would happen... But, of course, if the engine is running you should see more than battery voltage (after the GPs are off and the PCM activates the charging system).

If this happens with the engine OFF, maybe the voltage reg is protecting something? A diode in the circuit?

In either case, if it were me, I'd pull the Alt and take it to someplace with a tester that spins it up and loads it (like most of the Auto Parts chains).

Here's another link (it has block diagrams), but unfortunately it too is for an '02 (I have an '02 so these are the ones I save ). In the mid '01 run there was a electrical revision, I'm not sure how it effected the charging system, might not apply to your truck but have a look anyway...

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...NGEzMzI1NmNmMQ

[Lincoln_Rig]

Thanks again, I will look through this.
I've tested this with the engine off, the two wire plug unplugged from the alternator (if I connect the pins in the alternator directly to battery with engine running, it does charge (alternator is brand new))
With the key off power is at the orange wire only, key on power at both. Adding the test light drops voltage to 0, the light will not light, flicker, glow, nothing.
I will add, for it may have significance, that prior to replacing the alternator, the old one started over charging and seemed to be draining the batteries. then it quit charging all together. I wonder now maybe the old alternator was still good

[Lincoln_Rig]

Looking through other posts, I noticed that it was mentioned the alternator output is off while the glow plugs are on? Is this the case or did I misunderstand?
If this is the case it's worth noting that around the same time the alternator started to act up, it became harder to start, as though the glow plugs were not working.
This didn't happen gradually, more like all of a sudden thing.
Thanks again for any help.
No charging help!!!

[Sticker Monster]

hope this will help you Lincoln. here is the 2000 generator testing procedures from the service manual.

SM