Kimberly Ford

[Kimberlyford]

Some alternators need to be exited to start working, there is a third terminal on them to do this. One way of doing this is to put an oil pressure idiot light switch in the circuit between the battery and the the alternator, as soon as the oil pressure up it turns off the exiciter current. The other way that I used on my 8n conversion is to open the throttle until the alternator exicited itself, somewhat easier than adding an additional circuit.

Thank you for information. I ended up replacing the one in it with a chev three also noted as a two wire alternator and it all seems to be running and charging as it should be now. It starts and runs every day so far anyway. Thanks for the information mapper.

 

[ovrszd]

Glad it's working for you. Update us in regards to your projects.