[AT] ? Now what?

Mike mikesloane at verizon.net
Fri Apr 5 13:23:21 PDT 2013


Snow? It was 60° this afternoon on the middle of the other coast (NJ).
After cutting away a significant chunk of a forsythia bush that was
threatening to take over the whole front yard, I piled the cuttings in
the bucket of my Case 430CK and dumped everything into the wetlands.

No big deal? It is for me: the generator stopped producing electricity
about a year or so ago and the my local auto electric guy showed me that
the generator field windings were completely gone. It was an oddball
Prestolite, and he couldn't even find the parts to repair it. I would
have been happy to just convert it to an alternator, but it also has the
tachometer drive on the back. He also said that the regulator that I had
installed was the wrong one. The regulator called out in the parts
manual is the same one as a 1962 Rambler. I found one - NOS on eBay -
and bought it. And I also purchased the only generator I could find: a
rebuilt from Central Tractor. When that combination didn't work either,
I took the "new" generator and regulator together back down to the
electric shop. He said tha generator is fine (he even load tested it up
to 60 amps!), but whoever rebuilt it wired it in a way that was
incompatible with the OEM regulator I had bought. He did some
experimenting and discovered a NAPA regulator spec'ed for a GM generator
would do the job. I put them both on yesterday, and I finally have my
electricity! It only took a year to come up with the right pieces.

Now all I need to do is find out why only two of the five lights work -
probably grounding problems - two on the cab roof and one on the rear
fender. I don't use the tractor at night, so I can probably live with it
the way it is until the next blizzard...

The next project is to clean and re-line the tank on the Farmall 340 and
get that put back together. I pulled the tank last Fall, and it suddenly
got too cold to finish the job. Now I have no excuse.

Mike in NJ

On 4/5/2013 2:13 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> Strange thing about this list sometimes. I made a reply to a post
> here at 8:30 this morning and it has yet to show up. In fact there
> has been nothing from the atis list since 5:41 this morning. Has the
> list died? Did I break it? I'll blame it on the snow that is hitting
> us in Sask. this morning.
>
> Ralph in Sask.



More information about the AT mailing list