I was just approached by a friend at work who owns a 87 pachanga, V6. Says his alternator is kaput, and he already removed it. His question to me was, when he removed the alt., he noticed that there was a separate smaller black wire which was connected to the same post as the orange. It had been cut loose, with only a couple inches left still attached, and says it looks like it was part of original wiring.I dont know where it could have went, and I wonder if previous owner tried to attach something there. Was there something else that went to that post? Any guesses?

Bingo.. Now it makes sense. The capacitor is gone, only the wire is left. Now he says it looks like a piece of a mounting bracket was also found attached to the groung lug, and this is probably where they mounted it. The rest is probably down in his bilge somewhere.