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Re: one wire alternator

To: vinttr4@geneseo.net, tarch@bellsouth.net, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: one wire alternator
From: WEmery7451@aol.com
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:31:53 EDT
Delivered-to: mharc@demo.fatchancegarage.com
Reply-to: WEmery7451@aol.com
Sender: owner-fot@autox.team.net
I am just going through this mess after having the alternator for over a 
year.  I copied Henry Frye's maneuver by ordering the six pound one wire 
alternator from buyparts@partzfinder.com.  Now comes the fun.  Does anyone know 
where I 
can buy a long metric bolt (About 5 1/2 inches long)?  Right now, I have the 
alternator anchored to the front plate through one side of the original 
bracket.

You have to convert to negative ground since an alternator is being 
installed.  I had to replace my old capacitive discharge positive ground 
ignition box 
with a MSD ignition.

No instructions came with my alternator, and I assume that one wire 
alternators have built in voltage regulators, and that you do not use the old 
Lucas 
regulator.  You just hook the one wire some place to back feed into the battery.

Tim Studdard's old article on one wire alternators says that a wire must also 
be run to the old Lucas regulator field to make the ammeter work.  Talking to 
the ex-US Air mechanic, he says to replace the alternator with a volt meter 
(13 or 14 volts means that the alternator is working, and about 11 volts says 
that it isn't working).  Racer's Parts Wholesale shows a voltmeter replacement. 
 This simplifies the problem, but I am still would not out of the woods.  I 
will have to study the wiring schematic in the red shop manual to see what else 
runs through the regulator -- ignition switch, etc.?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

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