Alternator Conversion

Well, the gifts are wrapped, the tree is trimmed, the gin­ger­bread house is done and the dog (Wyatt) is back from the groomer with his jin­gle bell col­lar on, so with lit­tle else to do I went over to the shop and trial fit the new alter­na­tor this morn­ing.  It really was a sim­ple install, I pur­chased a Delco 10 si 63 amp alter­na­tor, pulled the gen­er­a­tor, dis­con­nected the wires from the volt­age reg­u­la­tor and began.

I reversed the gen­er­a­tor mount 180 degrees bought a 3″ 3/8″ bolt and put it in.  It was out of line so I shimmed it out with 6 wash­ers and bingo it was lined up.  The adjust­ing arm needed to be shimmed out from the water pump too, I used the old belt ten­sioned it up, used a no. 4 cable from the out­put to the bat­tery ter­mi­nal and I was ready to go.  I just capped off the orig­i­nal wires and taped them into the har­ness, leav­ing the old volt­age reg­u­la­tor mounted with noth­ing con­nected to it, so it will be easy to reverse every­thing should I decide to down the road.

Started her up and she was run­ning a solid 14+ volts at idle, should work out very well and deal a lot less aggra­va­tion in the future.  Now that I know every­thing is prop­erly aligned and func­tion­ing, I will dress it up by mak­ing some spac­ers to take the place of the wash­ers and I have also ordered a 2 wire plug to fit the alter­na­tor so that I can wire it in to the gen­er­a­tor light and have a fully func­tion­ing unit with­out all of the gen­er­a­tor headaches.

Stick a fork in me, I’m done.…. Time to cel­e­brate!  Have a very Merry Christ­mas and I sin­cerely hope Santa brings every­thing you really want (notice I didn’t say need, because we all def­i­nitely want more than we need.….lol).

Until next week.….……

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