GEN light on w/ hesitation
 

'96 XJ here and here lately I've had just a few instances where the truck hesitated to go just as I gave it some gas. Only been seeing this from dead stop or slight roll. Hesitates for a second or two then it gets going like normal.

Did it again this morning and although I haven't been paying attention to the dash lights I noticed the GEN light was on just before I shut it off. It could've been on since the hesitation on start up, not really sure.

Are these two things related and what does the GEN light mean? Check engine light isn't on and my reader doesn't show any codes right now. Put in a new alternator 3 years / 25k miles ago.

On my '96XJ, the only time I have ever seen the GEN light come on is when I had a distributor problem. It's a long story, but the cam position sensor was rendered useless and I got the GEN light with the very irritating crank-no-start. Food for thought...

Thanks for that craiso I'll keep that in mind next time. This time it turned out to be the alternator. Had a hard time convincing myself that was it b/c the as my records showed it was only 2 yrs ago I put a new one on. The one that went bad 2 yrs ago was the original..lasted 20 years. At least the new ones in now and it's done. Lifetime warranty on it so this one was free, but am I gonna have to put one in every 2 years now? sheesh