Re: Henry's 37 Limousine
Posted by Cli55er On 2016/8/29 12:56:22
pulled off the alternator to reclock it so that the wires were not coming out towards the motor. with the wires coming out of the driver's side it would be easier to hook it in with the harness, etc.
well a few things of note. 1. the alternator was installed upside down. 2. after taking it apart, pieces were missing and the brushes were near gone. the brush holder was broken. bye bye alternator. ordered a new one from NAPA.
the new alternator and the old one had the same case design, so since I had to reclock the new one, I just reused the front housing from the old one so I did not have to hack into the new one to make it work with the brackets. this way the lifetime warranty stays in place as when I need to bring it in for replacement, I just put the original front of the case back on. I did pry off the bearing grease cap on the front bearing of the old case front and regreased it. Part numbers are listed, not that anyone really needs them for a 37 Packard unless they plan to convert to 12v.
I also found a 3.2ohm internally resisted coil as BigKev advised. NAPA as well. and it came with posts for quick disconnect. the coil that was on there was actually 1.5 internal with a 1.5 external added to make it 3ohm. I wasn't reading my ohm meter correctly and forgot to subtract the resident ohm of the wires on the meter.
I did some of the wiring under the dash. decided to start with the starting system and move from there. I used some of the wiring wrap I bought for the 55 as I have plenty of it. I shrink wrapped each end to keep it from unraveling and used non insulated connectors covered in shrink wrap. I also ordered braided loom to go over that. the wire wrap is so that the wire colors do not show through the loom.
the pink wire is the coil wire, which I put a bullet connector on it so I could disconnect it whenever I felt like it.
Battery power goes to the left side of key switch, then purple wire is labeled neutral safety switch. that goes to the starter button and then the rest of the purple wire goes to the starter solenoid. so basically there is no neutral safety even though the wire is labeled that. there is a wire labeled for the ACC, which the key switch does not have, so I have to figure out what I want to do with that. maybe it will work connecting it to the left pole of the starter switch so that it operates as original where you can turn the motor over without the key in. I'm not sure yet. but I don't think that will work either as I don't think that wire has live power, but is supplied power from the battery cable on the key switch if you put it in ACC. what to do what to do....hmmmmm.
what the heck I'm going to do with all the left over wires still on the harness is another issue. don't really like the idea of wires just curled up and hanging there with live 12v on them.
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well a few things of note. 1. the alternator was installed upside down. 2. after taking it apart, pieces were missing and the brushes were near gone. the brush holder was broken. bye bye alternator. ordered a new one from NAPA.
the new alternator and the old one had the same case design, so since I had to reclock the new one, I just reused the front housing from the old one so I did not have to hack into the new one to make it work with the brackets. this way the lifetime warranty stays in place as when I need to bring it in for replacement, I just put the original front of the case back on. I did pry off the bearing grease cap on the front bearing of the old case front and regreased it. Part numbers are listed, not that anyone really needs them for a 37 Packard unless they plan to convert to 12v.
I also found a 3.2ohm internally resisted coil as BigKev advised. NAPA as well. and it came with posts for quick disconnect. the coil that was on there was actually 1.5 internal with a 1.5 external added to make it 3ohm. I wasn't reading my ohm meter correctly and forgot to subtract the resident ohm of the wires on the meter.
I did some of the wiring under the dash. decided to start with the starting system and move from there. I used some of the wiring wrap I bought for the 55 as I have plenty of it. I shrink wrapped each end to keep it from unraveling and used non insulated connectors covered in shrink wrap. I also ordered braided loom to go over that. the wire wrap is so that the wire colors do not show through the loom.
the pink wire is the coil wire, which I put a bullet connector on it so I could disconnect it whenever I felt like it.
Battery power goes to the left side of key switch, then purple wire is labeled neutral safety switch. that goes to the starter button and then the rest of the purple wire goes to the starter solenoid. so basically there is no neutral safety even though the wire is labeled that. there is a wire labeled for the ACC, which the key switch does not have, so I have to figure out what I want to do with that. maybe it will work connecting it to the left pole of the starter switch so that it operates as original where you can turn the motor over without the key in. I'm not sure yet. but I don't think that will work either as I don't think that wire has live power, but is supplied power from the battery cable on the key switch if you put it in ACC. what to do what to do....hmmmmm.
what the heck I'm going to do with all the left over wires still on the harness is another issue. don't really like the idea of wires just curled up and hanging there with live 12v on them.
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