Dean I don't have your answer, but please don't go to the same parts place
that Rick went to.
"You want a distributor? for what? ya mean those things had distributors?"
Patrick
At 08:45 AM 2/5/99 -0000, Dean Dashwood wrote:
>Good Morning listers,
>
>I am just about to buy my first ever Spitfire - '77 1500. Problem is
>the alternator is completely gone. I told the current owner I need her
>to get it fixed before I can buy the car, because I don't know if I'll
>be able to get it home otherwise - and she didn't seem to have a problem
>with this.
>
>Yesterday, she phoned me to say it would take two weeks to get a new
>alternator delivered. No problem, I said, I'll see if I can get one any
>faster, and 15 minutes later I'd found a Triumph specialist who said
>they'd send me one straight away.
>
>So I phoned the owner up again - and that was when she told me that,
>according to her brother-in-law, who's the family Spitfire expert, this
>car doesn't have a standard alternator. He had asked her to look at the
>wires coming out the back of the alternator so he could work out what
>alternator it was, and she'd told him that it had two thick wires and
>two thin wires - and that was how he knew it wasn't the standard
>alternator.
>
>Does this mean anything to anyone? It sounds like I may have ordered
>the wrong part, but I really don't think I can phone up the parts place
>and ask for an alternator with two thick and two thin wires! I don't
>know if this alternator has a name, or what rating it is, or anything
>else about it, but if anyone has any ideas I'd be really grateful -
>because if I have ordered the wrong one I'd really like to cancel the
>order before it's too late!
>
>Alternatively, is it easy to convert the connections to work with a
>standard alternator? Or, if it all goes wrong and I can't get hold of
>an alternator immediately, does anyone have any idea how far you can get
>a Spitfire with a fully-charged battery but no alternator (both with and
>without lights)?
>
>I would appreciate any help anyone could give me on this
>
>
>Dean Dashwood
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>
Patrick Bowen
'79 Spitfire
Jacksonville FL
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