[AT] ? Now what?

[Mike]

Wow, I think I would have lived without the tach, hindsight being what 
it is.
Mike M
On 4/5/2013 4:23 PM, Mike wrote:
> 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.
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