a new truck issue. a couple three days ago for about 5 minutes my battery and brake lights illuminated together with a drop in the voltage indicator. not so good. i was visiting with tim and kim at the tim so went back to their house and removed the battery cables and cleaned the terminals. the next day i started the truck in the morning and no problems. that day i drove to sylvie’s (calgary from lethbridge) and spent the night with her and monty. started out the next morning and ugh, same problem. after about 5 minutes the problem went away and i headed up to lacombe to jennifer’s. but, i first stopped by the toyota dealer in red deer and was informed that my alternator was going bad. which is what i suspected. they were kind enough to tell me to bring the truck back in the morning and they would fit it into their already booked repair day. (sooooo kind, all it takes is money…)
if i was closer to fairbanks i would have been tempted to just drive with the thing as it was. but, there are some LONG stretches on the alcan where service is nonexistent. thus, i opted for the repair now rather than later.
