[Healeys] (no subject)alternator

[Richard Ewald]

Grr resent due to message size.

Yes and then one day you think you might have a charging issue on your
> wife's modern computer equipped car, so you do the same thing...
> Several thousand dollars worth of new computers later...
> or worse yet
> Somebody reading your post decides to test his personal car's electrical
> system this way and destroys a computer or three.
>
> Learn it right, you will do it right.  Lean it wrong, you will spend the
> rest of your life trying to lean the correct way.
> $.02
> Rick
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:50 AM, <bighealey at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> Well gosh.  I have done this before momentarily (never on a modern car but
>> on farm tractors, jeeps and my Healey) without ill effect to see if I am
>> getting a charge from the alternator when I was without anything but a few
>> wrenches.  I just do not understand what could be hurt on such a simple set
>> of electronics.
>>
>> Lights - no
>> Coil - no
>> Points - no
>> Flashers - no
>> Horn - no
>> Wiring - no
>>
>> errrr I lack a computer system in the Healey..........
>>
>> I stand by my method.  I promise not to do it to any computer equipped
>> Healey.