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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I agree with Josef that is the common cause of failure. In reviewing the Standard Motor site, they indicate that Heat is the most common reason for failure, so It stands to reason that mounting them on the engine or operating accessory to the engine such as a generator is not a good idea. I cannot find the section on the site regarding a detailed mounting of solenoid, relay, coils etc. because the site is so sophisticated with videos and so on showing high tech automotive products.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Bob Begani<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>BJ8 67<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> josef-eckert@t-online.de [mailto:josef-eckert@t-online.de] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 24, 2016 2:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> Robert F. Begani <RFBegani@speakeasy.net>; Healeys, Forum <Healeys@autox.team.net><br><b>Subject:</b> AW: [Healeys] FW: Mount a coil on an alternator.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The coil on the generator/alternator is not the best place for a coil. It gets all the heat from the engine and produces its own as well. Coils usually doesn´t like heat. But as always there is a but. I collect the original LUCAS coils. Mainly I get them at autojumbles.I do not remember any of the old used ones I bought was defekt. They are all working properly. I have a test bed for distributers and coils at the company I work for in my spare time.They are extremely reliable and do not need to put to a colder place as modern replacements which often fail.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Josef Eckert</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Konigswinter/Germany</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>-----Original-Nachricht-----<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Betreff: [Healeys] FW: Mount a coil on an alternator.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Datum: 2016-12-24T20:20:00+0100<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Von: "Robert F. Begani" <<a href="mailto:RFBegani@speakeasy.net">RFBegani@speakeasy.net</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>An: "<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Simon:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I do know that Standard Motors who, from the beginning of the automobile industry, was and still is a major American manufacturer of coils, relays, etc, does not recommend putting any of those items on the motor due to vibration. I know this because I read their instructions on how to install a coil relay between the starter switch and the glow plugs on my diesel engine in by sailboat. The manufacturer of the engine Universal Westerbek sells a bracket to mount the coil on the engine because it was always mounted there, I guess. Hard to change old habits.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>It stands to reason they will last a lot longer if there are not shaken and never stirred. Mine is not mounted on the alternator, either. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Season’s Greetings</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>My New Year’s resolution is to put the rebuilt engine in by BJ8 after the 1<sup>st</sup> of the year and drive it.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Bob Begani</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>BJ8 67</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><strong>From:</strong> Healeys [<a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net">mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Simon Lachlan<br><strong>Sent:</strong> Friday, December 23, 2016 1:08 PM<br><strong>To:</strong> 'Healey Group' <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>><br><strong>Subject:</strong> [Healeys] Mount a coil on an alternator.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>I’ve had an alternator in my BT7 for a while now.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>So, when I was doing the job, I looked at pictures of other people’s installations. Nobody’s coil was mounted on the alternator as coils were/are mounted on the generators.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>I didn’t mount mine on the alternator either.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Now, I’m wondering why everybody found ingenious places to put the coils and nobody ingeniously adapted their brackets to fit onto their alternator.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Do alternators get too hot? Do they give off some kind of magic death ray that fries coils or what??</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Any reasons not to do it??</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Simon</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 2016.0.7924 / Virus Database: 4739/13646 - Release Date: 12/24/16<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 2016.0.7924 / Virus Database: 4739/13649 - Release Date: 12/24/16<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>