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Re: TR Generator Rebuild or Modify?

To: <CarlSereda@aol.com>, <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: TR Generator Rebuild or Modify?
From: "Kinderlehrer" <kinderlehrer@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 21:16:41 -0700
Thanks Carl, 
Seems to make sense.
Bob


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> From: CarlSereda@aol.com
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: TR Generator Rebuild or Modify?
> Date: Monday, July 20, 1998 3:22 PM
> 
> 
> Sounds like generator brushes just wore out.
> Putting in a new set of brushes for $2.55 is pretty darn cheap and easy.
I
> took the opportunity to push in a new bushing at the commutator end-cap
while
> I was at it (cut a slot in the old one with a naked hack saw blade and
yanked
> it out with pliers and a screw driver then tapped in the new $0.75
bushing
> with a regular socket from a ratchet wrench). Cleaned up the commutator
with
> some emery paper and seated the new brushes like-wise and presto!
brand-new
> like generator! Total cost 'bout 4 bucks .. labor ...couple hours total.
I'm
> not saying it was super easy on the labor side but the cheap parts and
keeping
> a great generator and the stock setup appealed to me. 
> Carl
> '64 TR4
> ps; After I tuned up the generator I also cleaned up all the points in
the
> voltage regular and reset to specs with a voltmeter. Charging like a
champ
> now.

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