[Spridgets] 72 Midget elec woes

David Riker davriker at nwi.net
Mon Jul 13 21:21:29 MDT 2009


Bad diode in the Alternator.  Thats my guess.

David R.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank" <spritenut at comcast.net>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 5:47 PM
Subject: [Spridgets] 72 Midget elec woes


>I am working on swapping everything from 1 Midget to another, one was
> built 10/71, the other 4/72 so the wire harnesses are identical.
> No dash in it yet but I popped the drivetrain in it yesterday and wanted
> to see if it ran. He did drive the rust bucket over here so I knew it
> ran but now the drive train is in the
> 71 tub with a 71 harness.
> I just hooked up the alternator (Lucas) and the plug fit. Hooked the
> tach wires together, hooked up the coil and solenoid and plugged in the
> wires from the key switch to the harness. Nothing else but the oil gauge
> is hooked up, dash board is across the garage.
> I turned the key and it fired right up, ignition light went out as it
> should and it shut off with the key as it should.
> 10 minutes later I hear the fuel pump ticking, the ignition light is on
> and the key is off.
> Key out, light still on, light stays on until I start it and it goes out.
> So where is my short that showed up after a few minutes?
> I unplugged each wire from the key switch, the light stayed on! I had to
> pull the secondary brown wire off the solenoid to kill the ign light.
> Even the heavy primary brown wire on the solenoid did not kill the ign
> light.
> Now none of this was going on when I was hooking up the few items to get
> it to fire. And did not happen for the 20 minutes I was messing with
> stuff starting it, turning it off, etc.
> I am thinking a short in the alternator?
> What do you guys think?
>
> -- 
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> My own Fleet of Sprites
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