Originally Posted by Empire

does it try to stay alive or does it just die?

why do you say the alternator is dead? you realize that the only thing that would happen is that it would run until the battery dies and then not start or turn over or anything...

what crappy wiring? your powers of description in just mind blowing.
What do you mean "running like poopdick" ? I wasn't able to find an applicable definition of that term...

point being, if you want help, then pour forth useful information, a lot of it. Attempting to avoid such powerful descriptive words as poopdick....

just sayin...