[Roadsters] roadster alternator check, do a once over first

[Gary and Cindy Ault]

"Grounds are good" as long as they're not in the hot lead.....;-)

Gary
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fergus OFarrell" <fergus06 at socal.rr.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 8:59 PM
Subject: [Roadsters] roadster alternator check, do a once over first


> Jim,
> having come from this before, the first thing I suggets is making sure all
> connections in the charging loop are sound.
> I launched off on a GM alt swap, only to find, sometime past the point of
> half-way, (radiator out, alt purchased, brackets removed) that a single 
> wire
> sizeable gauge wire in the charging system loop was loose.  Since then I 
> have
> given away both the alt and voltage regulator, and stayed with the GM 
> system,
> but would saved myself a ton o time if I had only just done a preliminary
> check and given all the wires in the initial (coming out of the alt and
> connect to elsewhere) a good once-over.
>
> Okay, so once over that, most auto stores can check an alt for charging, 
> but
> many times it is the voltage reg not telling it when to charge.  How to 
> check
> a regulator I will leave to mroe of the experts. (Sandhoff, Pat Horne, 
> etc)
>
> Just remember the roadster mantra:  "grounds are good. grounds are good,
> grounds are good"
>
> Fergus O, 69 2000, now in Los Alamitos, CA (the home of Wings, Wheels, and
> Rotors, coming next week)   http://www.wwrexpo.net/sh.htm
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