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Re: GM alternator, etc

To: "Brian Berry" <swimmergod@yahoo.com>, <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: GM alternator, etc
From: Tom Hendricksen <tom@fransfancies.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 15:45:27 -0700
Many cars come with fusible links in their wiring harness.  Try your local
wrecking yard.  Many people never bother to take these from the cars there.

Tom Hendricksen
69 2000
Portland, Oregon

SLBESQ@aol.com wrote:

> hi everyone
>
> i did it!  finally i got around to installing my new alternator.  thanks to
> susan and dan for sending the air pump bracket to facilitate the swap.  i had
> to drill out the new bracket, but with about a dozen or so washers as
> spacers, it's now in.
>
> i have a couple questions:
>
> 1.    where can i buy a "fused link" to insert in the line between the new
> alt and the battery?  i tried OSH and a couple auto parts stores to no avail.
>
> 2.    while routing the 10 guage wire to the trunk (location of my battery),
> i finally discovered the reason oil appears to drip from my e-brake bracket
> mounted to the rear axle carrier.  in between the uprights for the torque bar
> (long since gone) is a "breather."  i found it in the clymer manual, but no
> mention of how it should be adjusted.  it is a bolt with a weird head, fine
> threads, and a hole drilled into the shaft, through the threads.  if i screw
> it down all the way, it drops below the threads.  how should this piece be
> adjusted?  that is, how far out or in should it be?
>
> thanks in advance for all your great insight.
>
> s
> 67.5MIZU (now with 80 amps).
>
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