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Re: GM Alternator

To: "Spike" <bigfigg@earthlink.net> information
Subject: Re: GM Alternator
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:46:41 -0500
Cc: "spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
References: <43EA1762.9@cox.net> <007b01c62d1c$96455c20$6e7ba8c0@hsd1.wa.comcast.net> <8747F2F2-7988-4F6A-9C40-15563903D003@bbl.med.upenn.edu> <00c201c62d22$8ca688a0$6e7ba8c0@hsd1.wa.comcast.net>
OK, Works for me. YMMV, mine did ;-)

Larry

On Feb 8, 2006, at 9:43 PM, Spike wrote:

> All the mounting points on the Saturn alternator once rotated where
> identical to the Lucas unit, that included angles and distance. The
> only mod I did was to put a thread insert in the hole for the
> tensioner/adjuster so that it bolted on just like the Lucas.
>
> Spike
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry B. Macy, Ph.D." <macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu>
> To: "Spike" <bigfigg@earthlink.net>
> Cc: "spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 06:18 PM
> Subject: Re: GM Alternator
>
>
>> Note that the mounting on an MGB is different than an Spridget. You
>> can do almost the same thing, but it is not exact. The tensioner/
>> adjuster is laid out different.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> On Feb 8, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Spike wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.onefastmgb.com/pages/6/index.htm
>>>
>>>      Check this conversion out.  I did this on my MGB and plan on
>>> doing it
>>>  when the Lucas dies on my spridget.  Fits just like the lucas and
>>>  about the same size, all you do is rotate the case, wire it and
> it
>>> fits
>>>  the stock mounting.  Not bad for 90amps.
>>>
>>>  Spike
>
>

--  

Larry Macy
78 Midget

Keep your top down and your chin up.

Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104

The bottom line: Sure, there's pain in adopting the Mac. But if I  
accept that, I get to use a computer that works, and that pretty much  
does what I expect and want a computer to do.
Stewart Alsop, FORTUNE, Monday, June 25, 2001


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