- 1. starter and ground (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Lansing <kidjoevid@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:59:23 -0700 (PDT)
- On an older spridget with positive ground will a newer starter work? Wouldn't the leads be backwards, or the starter spin in the wrong direction? Joe Lansing 62 Sprite Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has
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- 2. Re: starter and ground (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Juhas <james.f.juhas@snet.net>
- Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:18:52 -0400
- Mine worked. I replaced the original starter on my 1966 Sprite with a gear reduction unit from an Isuzu truck. No issues whatsoever, except I had to make an indent in the passenger footbox to fit it.
- /html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00143.html (6,975 bytes)
- 3. Re: starter and ground (score: 1)
- Author: SDOliner@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 20:36:59 EDT
- For reasons that I can't explain, the starter motor spins the same direction despite the polarity. I had read this, but really didn't believe it until I switched from positive to negative ground on m
- /html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00144.html (6,622 bytes)
- 4. RE: starter and ground (score: 1)
- Author: "Navarrette, Vance" <vance.navarrette@intel.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 08:23:05 -0700
- Older starters use battery current to excite the field windings; When you reverse the polarity, the current through the field windings also reverses, so in effect you get two reversals which cancel
- /html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00153.html (7,602 bytes)
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