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Fuse was good! I went back and tested the two wires into the alternator. Only one was supplying voltage. I had that one pointed at the F terminal when it should be pointing to the L terminal. My original wiring told me to wire it the opposite... so I reversed it and tried that. I now get 14.4 volts across the battery while the car is running. 13 volts when the car is off. I think it is good to go now

once i get my new wheels/tires back on the car tonight i will see if it starts. one interesting issue on this car was a bit of smoke on start up but not at all otherwise. AFter getting it home i was checking thru everything and found the oil level was too high, it had been over filled when the P.O. did the oil change right before i took the car, so it got drained and i started over. It was really starting rough having to give it petal almost like you would do with a carbureted car. My last Reatta was a '88 coupe, and i never had a starting issue with it. I figured since this car sat for a long time, i would put in a new fuel filter and fresh tank of gas along with the new plugs wire and coil. Any one have a source for new front ABS sensors? they seem to be NA, and so do the rear struts. Marck from East Coast Reatta Parts says he will be doing another run of those so hopefully he has enough interest to do that sooner than later. My short list of repairs and fix is : trunk actuator, ABS sorted, hopefully sensors, the rough start, and soft soggy suspension(front done this week), and my driver side seat controller at the side of the seat for the lumbar and the tilt is dead so that too. Is there a source for window seals and trunk seals? Thanks for the help and advise its great there are active members here ! My other fun project car for the past 15 years is a Porsche 914 that is now fully restored, which i got after i sold the last Reatta 15 years back. We have a very active forum and several parts vendors that have stepped up to proved new parts for those cars now, like seals and trim and such. Looking forward to getting this car back on the road. I should start a new thread for my work i guess.....

I usually use Google to search this forum (and others), by adding ::reattaowners.com (or whatever site you want to search) after my query. That forces Google to prioritize hits from the site you are interested in. e.g. Oil pan gasket ::reattaowners.com brings up two threads