got mitsubishi montero sport 2002 got my alternator replaced, ran good for a while now its smelling like smoke and the SRS light comes on n shuts it off

Asked by trinasmontero Feb 03, 2015 at 10:01 PM about the 2002 Mitsubishi Montero Sport ES

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

got mitsubishi montero sport 2002 got my alternator replaced, ran good for a while now its
smelling like smoke and the SRS light comes on n when i turned it off it didnt come on for
a while so i waited a while it came back on came home and it did the same thing.... any
suggestions why its doing this????

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I have an 02 Montero Sport ES 3.0L 2WD, I dont know if it would be the same problem but I recently had this done. I have 118K miles on it: the cam shaft and o-rings were leaking and causing the oil to drip into the alternator and short them out. I have purchased 4 alternators over the course of the 5 years that I have owned this vehicle and went through 3 mechanics to finally figure out the problems. It cost me about 1700$ to fix.

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check your EGR vacuum solenoid, if its clogged it will do that.

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