Your friend is correct in that you are polarizing the generator fields and nothing inside the regulator. Done correctly by just momentarily shorting the bat to gen (arm) terminals at the regulator, there should be no damage to the regulator internally. Only other thing I can add is whether needed or not, polarizing was Packards official recommendations over the years.
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