Trish,
If you are motivated by minimal costs (who isn't?), and if the only
real problem is that your headlights are dim, the cheapest things you
can do are:
1. Wash the fronts of the headlights. You'd be surprised, especially
this time of year, what a difference the road film makes.
2. Check all of the connections in the lighting circuit. Gently pull
the connectors apart (I usually spray a little lube in them if
possible), wipe off any lube, and use a Scotchbrite pad to shiny up
the male connector. I have not found a good way to clean the female;
possibly others on the list have. Then, though not absolutely
necessary, I put a tiny bit of conducting grease (e.g., Kopr-Shield
from Eastwood's) in the female and on the male and then insert.
If your generator or your voltage regulator are truly on the fritz
(the garage did check your regulator, right?), then 1 & 2 will not
provide much relief. However, when I bought my car, I thought that
the lights were too dim. Doing 1 & 2 helped a lot. Five years later,
I'm still running with the original equipment. Daily (and nightly)
driver.
Hope this helps,
Jeff
At 11:41 PM -0700 2/6/02, Trisha wrote:
>Having a generator just stinks! My lights are very dim, I've already had it
>fixed once, and it again seems not to be charging the battery, so my question
>is how difficult/ involved/ etc. is it to swap for an alternator? What I've
>got is a 1098, positive earth, and a mechanical tach- can I do this with
>minimal cost? and minimal changes? The positive earth isn't so important to
>me- but I'm cheap (and broke) and really don't want a huge project.
>TIA
>
>Patricia
>'59 Bugeye
>"Rene Descartes was a drunken fart 'I drink therefore I am"
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Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
Assistant Professor, Emory Eye Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
Senior Editor, Molecular Vision, http://www.molvis.org/molvis
mailto:jboatri@emory.edu
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