Hi there, I am seeking advise on a strange glove test result.


Symptoms (may or may not related):
Putting a rubber glove on the oil fill port results in a lightly inflated glove. When revving up, the glove collapses and it gets "sucked in".
There is visible smoke coming out from the oil fill port ...

Well, it was the reconditioned alternator. It wasn't reconditioned. Now i have alternator charge again =)

If someone still reading =)

I checked the alternator's signal wire to the ECM A88 pin, it shows continuity. Measured the voltage on the signal wire whilst the car was idling, it is 8.52V.
So, that would suggest to me the LIN is up and running.

As far as i understand, if the CEM, or the ECM would ...

Thank you scot850,



Well, it turned out i had a CEM water leak on the top. I just got back a cloned CEM an now everything works apart from the damn alternator. Hooked up to vida the alternator current is still 0A, 0V.

When measured on the alternator terminal and casing it still shows 11.70V ...

Hi everyone,

I am new here.. I was hoping that some of you would be kind enough to share your wisdom, gut feeling and put me out of my misery. To give a full picture of the significant events in a chronological order to the faults popped up i managed to write quite a bedtime reading. We would be ...