[Healeys] Dead generator

[Alan Seigrist]

Curses, that Murphy is a nasty fellow!

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'59 Jag Mk IX
'64 BJ8


On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Ron <ron.kraimaat at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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