Re: repeditive generator failure

Posted by steve-52/200 On 2011/11/6 13:23:07

The knowlegable mechanic said that when one depolarizes the voltage regulator its the same thing as depolarizing the gennie .He took the gennerator to the shop and turns out on dissambly it was a faulty rebuild ,new brushes and pain but everything else was shot inside ,I was running off a charged and recharged battery this whole time ,bad on max merrit for selling me an incompletely rebuilt rebuilt repeatedly ,the last one had a bad rotor that fell apart and the one before that was a baddie too !
Now to find out if the bad component overtaxed the voltage regular or battery when itwas in from too many charge discharge cycles or low voltage high ampand heat issues .
I have a modern belt .I think the old timey belts were bigger and weren't torqued so tightly ,maby me and my small modern belt did the damage .there was a shiney ring insode the generators pulley where I had possibley overtightened the belt .It says in the manual not to use a bar but the be
lt would slip when I turned on the lights
Any belt wisdom?
I had discussed a 12 v conversion with the mechanic but he said that was a new harness and id just put one in so forget it