[Healeys] Dead generator

[Ron]

To all of you who read my cry for help and specificallly those who gave me
advise, here is an update.

It took a while to get my generator problems fixed since I was on a one week
holiday first.
I decided to take the easy approach: go back to the garage (driving the Healey
with the faulty generator still mounted) where I bought the generator. My luck
is that this garageowner repairs/owns/restores big Healeys and is only half an
hour away..

His first conclusion was that the voltage regulator was probably broken. After
having him convinced that I should have read generator output on my voltmeter,
he decided to get his and and some documentation. It looked like the generator
was not OK.
He got a new generator and bolted it on my engine. I started the engine and
after about one second, the ignition light dimmed.
Problem fixed!!

So this was another great example of Murphy's law, where both my old generator
and the new one showed exactely the same symptoms.

Best regards,
Ron Kraimaat
BJ8'64 Ph1