IT lives!
Runs and everything. First time in over a year. Keep in mind that it was
only very minor projects that kept me from driving it, not a complete resto
or anything fun like that.
On my first drive, I found the ammeter dipping midway into the negative,
turn on the lights and it goes far to the negative. Correct me if I am
wrong, but I thought that if you had a low battery and load that the ammeter
should go higher.
Background: 1969 2L 1600
I did the alternator swap, and installed a Gary Boone special along with a
bunch of non-electrical stuff.
I replaced the wire leading from the alt to the splice by the firewall that
leads to the gauge, and added a 30A fuse. Added a new ground wire from the
alt, and extended the wires leading to the regulator. I don't know what of
this would be the culplrit. Nothing else was changed (other than the EI
conversion- which works very nice by the way)
My alt has 4 wires coming out of it to the harness. In its previous
location, only three were hooked to anything and it worked fine. (This is
how the harness plug
looked)http://www.geocities.com/smedly_whiplash/misc_image/wires.jpg
In case you can't tell, I am a novice mechanic and electronics is my weakest
area. Can anyone recomend a book on car electronics?
OT
Anyone seen this? It's so ugly that I love it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2409352970&cat
egory=6188
Oh- and don't forget my website, though if you ever look at it, you may
think I forgot about it.
http://www.geocities.com/smedly_whiplash/
Erik Smeby
2L1600
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