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What a great experience. Decided to make a quick trip up north to support the boys. Left Buffalo at 8am on Tuesday. Left Montréal to come home at 7am on Wednesday. Quick in and out. Nothing but good things to say about the city, their fans, and the experience. Bucket list type of sporting event to attend. Lots of good heckling back and forth. Things can always get tense and there are always idiots. But this fan base has passion and you love to see it. Already looking forward to the next time I can make the trip! If I had to guess we were 4 of about 30ish Sabres fans that we saw in total. Go Sabres!!!

Anyone else making the ride to go to game 4 on Tuesday? I have a group of 4. We will be up there around 1-2pm. Looking for anywhere to pregame with maybe some others that are traveling. Go Sabres!

Background: ‘92 F250 4x2 5.8L 351W with 73k on it. Bought just over a year ago. Only actual upgrade I did was an after market dash radio and new basic speakers. Rest maintenance items.

Had an issue where I took it for a long 4 hour trip camping - longest running trip I’ve done so far. Battery died over 2 days. Jumped and ran fine. Died when I stopped for coffee. Jumped again and made it home no problem. Thought it was the battery so I put a brand new motorcraft battery in. Ran fine and a day later woke up to it dead again.

Fully charged battery and tried doing parasitic draw test. Any time I did it it was showing 0.00. Fuse on the multimeter is good. Couldn’t get it to show anything. Had door open and cab light turned on when completing the circuit. Then tested battery voltage before and after running. Alternator showed very light improvements when running. Battering going from 12.7 up to low 13s. But when I put load on (lights, heat, radio) it seemed to not be able to keep up and dropped down again. Know it’s not supposed to be done but pulled the positive while running and truck died instantly. Plus then smelled some slight burning. All signs leading to alternator. Still not sure why I couldn’t get a draw before though??

So at this point I am looking to replace and upgrade the alternator, and the big 3 power cables. As well as any battery terminals. Reading a lot online and I think I am going to get a 130 amp alternator made for a ‘93 e series 4.9L from rockauto. Looks like clocking it and a slight cut from the mount should fit it. Also going to toss a new belt on while I’m at it. Clean up the solenoid.

Has anyone done this before? Recommendations on alternatives? Advice on cable size? 4 gauge? 0? Keep it OEM sizing?

I am just a weekend warrior but I’m pretty confident in doing work on this. I’ve learned a lot and done a lot on this truck so far. Having fun learning everything as I go. Just want to make sure I do things smart while I’m replacing! Thanks in advance for anyone that has some insight. Pic for attention