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Old Jul 5, 2014 | 11:16 AM
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Starter/alternator guy insists he saw an abnormal current that was reduced by pulling fuse #6. I can't find it.
Put everything back together 6 days ago. Thus far no abnormal current measured and battery remains fully charged.
I will just keep driving it and if problem reoccurs try and localize it with multimeter.
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Old Jul 5, 2014 | 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by RAD4Runner
This looks like a ferrite choke but it is not. This is the equivalent of the appendix in human terms. I am not aware of any 4Runner owner on T4R.org or Yotatech who had put this to any use in the past 30 years.
What is that thing for?
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Old Jul 5, 2014 | 01:43 PM
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What is that thing for?
It appears to me it would make it easier to replace (or attach) the alternator harness. Instead of having to pull the wire from the battery you can disconnect the alternator harness at that point. The other connecting points of the alternator harness are all in the same vicinity.
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Old Jul 5, 2014 | 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by mct75
What is that thing for?
Like I said above ^^^. Search function of appendix

Originally Posted by PETDOC
It appears to me it would make it easier to replace (or attach) the alternator harness. Instead of having to pull the wire from the battery you can disconnect the alternator harness at that point. The other connecting points of the alternator harness are all in the same vicinity.
Then you're not really replacing the harness. The longer part of the alternator wire is from that point to the battery. If you really want to replace the alt wire, no choice but to dig into that loom to the battery.

you are more likely to need to replace the alternator than to need to replace the harness. Either way, you simply disconnect this (instead of trying to pry open that plastic housing):
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Again, can anyone in this forum share what he used that for

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Old Jul 6, 2014 | 12:20 AM
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Red face

I never gave it a thought I thought it was a choke but had no idea why it was needed.

Some sort of shield generator to keep Dragons away??

Attachment point for the Flux Capacitor harness??

I pretty much narrowed it down to these two things
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