Bud, I read your post earlier and didn't really have a solution but something
just "clicked". It seems to me when I too thought I would use a Lucas
alternator when I bought the first rebuild, of several, I had on my car the
parts house had pictures of the various alternators for MGs. We chose the one
with the proper plug in it. So if you bought your alternator locally go back
and look at their catalogs and see if they can order the one with the correct
plug.
Larry Hoy, Denver, CO. USA
http://home.cwix.com/~larryhoy@cwix.com
1967 MGB Roadster, Vintage Racer
1969 MGB Roadster, Driver
1970 MGB Roadster, Fixer upper
1987 Jaguar XJ6 VDP, for the wife
"It's not how fast you go, it's how fast you go fast"
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-----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Bud Krueger
> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 10:46 PM
> To: Erik Brzoska
> Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Rebuilt Alternators
>
> Erik,
>
> I suspect that not all Lucas rebuilds are the same. I recently
> discovered
> that the
> (3 socket) plug on my new British Wiring harness for the '77B doesn't mate up
> with the (3 blade) connector on my Lucas rebuilt alternator. I'm still trying
> to resolve the issue.
> The wiring harness plug has two .5" sockets and one .25" socket at the
> outer edge. The alternator has two .25" blades with one .5" blade
> between them.
> The stagger alignments are different so they can't be forced together. Still
> puzzled.
>
> Bud Krueger
> 52TD
> 77MGB (almost wired)
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