well i had enough juice to get me to advanced, put on the new alternator and guess what.............same stuff was happening so i was out of ideas then "poof" a past experience told me to change the alt. belt so i did and that got rid of the problem! i didnt feel like taking the alternator back off because i would oif had to take the bracket and the fuel rail off again and didnt feel like doing that so even tho i didnt need a alt. i just keep the new one anyway.........life time warranty FTW!!