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June 6, 2007: There was one failure at the autocross.
Early in the day, the alternator stopped charging. It's always been a little slow to energize on startup. If I didn't give a bit of a throttle blip, it wouldn't light up. Well, the old one simply had enough. I spent the entire day - probably at least a dozen runs between myself and Bill - running the car off the battery. That little Odyssey is a tough little critter, it didn't show any signs of flagging at all.

I replaced the alternator with a new one last night and everything was much better. Okay, not new. Another junkyard alternator to replace the previous junkyard alternator.

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