Easy! Require you harness to support ANY alternator. I have had 3 prong, 5
prong and it came with a 4 prong.
There is a site that has a complete schematic for how to do it, but from what I
can gather from it you have to hook the positive big prong to the line to the
starter (fat brown? mine is not original.) and the two induction points BOTH go
to same the brown wire with the yellow stripe that goes to the alternator
light.
(Someone confirm this for me before he smokes his wiring harness and blames it
all on me.) :)
The autozone $50 jobber will work fine, though I am on my third one. The last
one lasted 3 years.
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Dennis Berman wrote:
> Members and Readers,
>
> Please excuse any "venting", its DAMN hot here in Texas,
> and this MG just wont stay up!
>
> Okay... so here's the problem (seems as if it never ends).
>
> Over the last 4 years, I have replaced 5 alternators.
> The first several lasted just outside of the warrenty period.
> One of them, the fan belt broke, whipping around, it broke the
> water pump bracket and the bracket on the alternator...
> This was clearly not covered under the warrenty.
>
> So, on Saturday, after driving around with an alternator that
> had a broken bracket (but still worked fine), I bought a new
> one from an MG specialist here in Dallas.
>
> Well, on Sunday, this new alternator failed. Jezzz... lasted less then
> 45 miles.
>
> So, here's my problem(s):
>
> 1) Sometime ago, I ordered an alternator from Autozone.
> After about two weeks, it finally arrived! Crap! the connector
> was the wrong type! Everything else looked right, but the
> connector was clearly wrong.
>
> 2) I had ordered just the outter bracket (from Moss) in an attempt
> to salvage the broken (yet working) alternator... After
> dismantelling
> it, I discovered that the new outter bracket was the wrong size.
> The alternator bearings were too small... In the process of
> disassembly,
> I broke the pulley shaft on the old alternator (now its useless...)
>
> 3) The MG Specialist here in Dallas charged me 180+ dollars for this
> new alternator (yep, only lasted 45 miles). Thats also 30 bucks less
> for an un-rebuildable core. And, I had to drive out there, pick it
> up,
> and install it in my MG. 180+ bucks seems a bit unrealistic.
>
> Here's my problem...
>
> Where on this green Earth can I find a place that will sell me, at a
> reasonable
> price, an alternator that I know will fit on this car?
>
> I don't want to have to pay shipping several times just because they
> sent
> me the wrong part.
>
> Am I expecting too much, or what?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dennis Berman
>
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> (_o____o_) Safety Fast
> dberman@nortelnetworks.com
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