ok, i won't have much time to do anything until this weekend but I went played with it for a few mins last night.

With the idle around 850ish in gear I realized that I can have the headlights and the volts stay around 14.5. as soon as I hit the brakes (brake lights go on) that the volts start dropping. It seems the system won't handle both.

But I upped the idle slightly to 900-925ish in gear and everything is fine.


That idle seems a bit high to me. How do you determine what the idle should be at? Just to where everything is running good?

I am still going to have the alternator and battery checked out, but this seems to have done the trick for now.