The front bracket is also broken on my generator -- I believe the cause
of my bearing failure. Other than that, it was working fine when the
bearing failed.
Is that front bearing pretty available? I guess another option would be
to take the front bracket off a later gen and mount my armature in it
(assuming the bearing going out didn't ruin the armature as well).
Chas
David Ramsey wrote:
>
> Hi Chas,
> If the armature is OK on your generator it should cost about $50 to
>have the bearing, bushing, and brushes replaced. If its bad then to have it
>rewound and the above work done $90 to $120. These prices are from Auto &
>Truck Electrical in Reno. How do I know all this, well I'm on my third
>tach-drive generator in the last year. All slung solder trashing the
>armatures. I think the problem was a bad conection at the G spade, they also
>ate the female spade off the wire going to the generators. I think I solved
>the problem but only time will tell.
> The last time I was at the shop, Joe told me he had two rebuilt Lucas
>generators without the tach-drive he would sell me for $50 each. I thought I
>should pick one up as a spare, well he was wrong they were tach-drive
>generators and I bought them both (sorry not for sale), very dusty.
> Crash
> p.s. I just got a new screw terminal regulator from Moss (part #142-000) was
>I surprised to find it was genuine Lucas. Well untill I opened the Lucas box
>and found that besides the Lucas sticker on the regulator it was identical to
>a VR regulator made in India that I had.
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