Hi Larry,
It's the one that came with the car. It's had very little use in the few
years that it's been the car. The PO's electrically-challenged mechanic somehow
managed to get the wires into the right places. I'm hoping to be able to use
the
plug on the new harness. Got a message from Kelvin Dodd saying that Moss may
have
an adapter to do the trick. Thanks.
Bud Krueger
Larry Hoy wrote:
> Bud, I read your post earlier and didn't really have a solution but something
> just "clicked". It seems to me when I too thought I would use a Lucas
> alternator when I bought the first rebuild, of several, I had on my car the
> parts house had pictures of the various alternators for MGs. We chose the one
> with the proper plug in it. So if you bought your alternator locally go back
> and look at their catalogs and see if they can order the one with the correct
> plug.
>
> Larry Hoy, Denver, CO. USA
> http://home.cwix.com/~larryhoy@cwix.com
> 1967 MGB Roadster, Vintage Racer
> 1969 MGB Roadster, Driver
> 1970 MGB Roadster, Fixer upper
> 1987 Jaguar XJ6 VDP, for the wife
> "It's not how fast you go, it's how fast you go fast"
> ==========================================
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
> > Behalf Of Bud Krueger
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 10:46 PM
> > To: Erik Brzoska
> > Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Rebuilt Alternators
> >
> > Erik,
> >
> > I suspect that not all Lucas rebuilds are the same. I recently
> > discovered
> > that the
> > (3 socket) plug on my new British Wiring harness for the '77B doesn't mate
>up
> > with the (3 blade) connector on my Lucas rebuilt alternator. I'm still
>trying
> > to resolve the issue.
> > The wiring harness plug has two .5" sockets and one .25" socket at the
> > outer edge. The alternator has two .25" blades with one .5" blade
> > between them.
> > The stagger alignments are different so they can't be forced together.
>Still
> > puzzled.
> >
> > Bud Krueger
> > 52TD
> > 77MGB (almost wired)
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