one wire alt.

[wes hardin]

i cant remember how to wire a 3 wire gm into a 1 wire. im putting it on my ford 515. any help would be appreated, wes

 

[Car Doc]

The simple way is take the big red wire (#2) on the 2 wire connector and hook it to the output terminal and the other smaller brown wire in the 2 wire connector goes to the ignition switch in series with a bulb that is the KEY run it thru a bulb before the switch.

O'reileys has a replacement pigtail if you need one and I also believe they have

(or someone does for sure just don't remember maybe a boat parts supply house?)

a voltage regulator replacement that does all this on its own internally. hth