Re: sourcing new starter
Posted by Craig Hendrickson On 2010/5/13 12:49:57
Bernardi wrote: Quote:
It may not be original, but I converted my 55 400 to negative ground and installed an alternator. Need to reverse the ampmeter and change a coil wire, but everything else works.
This "sparked" the above informative discussion about coil polarity. It is also important to note for those with the original 55 Positive ground who are contemplating switching to Negative ground (for whatever reason) that one does NOT have to replace the original generator. All that is required is to repolarize it (the proceedure is in the SM). You may also have to replace the regulator (on the core support) with one which will handle the reversed polarity, as the original one probably will not. You can still buy regulators which will work with either polarity and they look exactly the same as the OEM one.
Craig
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