[Mg-t] TD Generator Failure Cause...

[Gerald Felper]

Scott
Many T series cars are using Sprite generators. They do not have the  
brush inspection window, but work fine.
Jerry

On Nov 16, 2009, at 12:58 PM, S Allen wrote:

> Hi Charlie,
>
> Looking over some docs from when I had the engine rebuilt there's a  
> note that
> it's from a Sprite.
>
> Good catch,
>
> Scott
>
> --- On Mon, 11/16/09, Charlie Baldwin <mgcharlie at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> From: Charlie Baldwin <mgcharlie at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Mg-t] TD Generator Failure Cause...
> To: "S Allen" <s4usea at yahoo.com>
> Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 3:47 PM
>
>
> Scott,
> Your generator may have come from a Sprite which the early ones had  
> a tach
> drive like the TD.  MGA generators don't have that.  It could also  
> be a
> replacement TD generator and that is why the date doesn't  
> correspond to the
> year of the car.
> Charlie
>
> S Allen wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for all of the great advice.  I'll have to give  
> some
> thought on the generator, as the date on it indicates that it  
> probably came
> out of an A or other BritCar, so if the Moss ones are okay, than  
> they're as
> viable an option as a re-build as originality isn't a question.
>
> Also, thank you for the recommendation to use Jeff Schlemmer for my  
> dizzy
> re-build.  I'll be sending it to him shortly.
>
> Thanks to everyone again,
>
> Scott Allen
>
> 52 TD
> 74 1/2 BGT
>
> --- On Mon, 11/16/09, Bob Howard <mgbob at juno.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Bob Howard <mgbob at juno.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mg-t] TD Generator Failure Cause...
> To: s4usea at yahoo.com
> Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 12:53 PM
>
>
> Hi Scott,
>    I see that you have received several good suggestions about the
> generator and distributor.  Pete Thiel keeps his machinery in good
> fettle. If he likes an outfit, it's a good outfit.  My favorite old  
> guy
> died, so if I have need of dynamo repair, I will go to Pete's guy.
>    Jeff Schlemmer does nice work.  He did my MGB distributor for me  
> two
> winters back when I was rebuilding.  It didn't have the right  
> distributor
> in the engine, something I asked him about, and his answer was that if
> it's a 25D which is right for the pre-rubber bumper engines like ours,
> then the five or six diget #s are model #s that reflect springs &  
> advance
> curves for whatver emission spec MG was trying to meet at that time.
>    His approach, which suited me perfectly, was to say that he  
> curves the
> distributor to your engine, so he asks compression, camshaft spec,  
> carbs,
> manifolding, exhaust etc, then fits the right bits inside the  
> distributor
> to best fit the engine.            As I had rebuilt with .060  
> overbore,
> raised compression to UK specs for 1972, polished & ported the head,
> manifold as much as I could reach, ran Falcon exhaust, etc, he took  
> mine
> and rebuilt to whatever he thought best for those changes.   
> Everyone in
> our CT club who has had Jeff work on distributors has been very  
> pleased.
> Those done by him include early & late MGB, MGA, TD, Jaguar and  
> Sunbeam,
> so I guess he has earned the good reputation.   He's quick and  
> reasonable
> too.
> Bob
>
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:20:49 -0800 (PST) S Allen <s4usea at yahoo.com>
> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> So I took apart the generator and it looks like the bearing cracked
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