Recent content by freedgguccii

WOW! That is gorgeous, one of the best I have ever seen. I'd say the first steps is getting it to run! Have you had any luck? I have a 440 but I am a little familiar with the Ignition/Electrics side of things now so i'll do as much as I can to help!

Normal temps to my knowledge! Just dumps on shutdown, no sounds of boiling/doesn't feel or smell hot either. I need to check my levels again

Well I had flooding issues before because I tried to rebuild the carb and messed it up LOL. Got that resolved. And yes it is in the motorhome, Unsure of miles on motor sadly. Hopefully it didnt get washed, I haven't noticed any odd smoke or anything of sorts. I don't believe its overheating as...

I do need to do a compression test ASAP, I have been holding off

Noted, I'll look into that. And yes I should have clarified its black soot, I have a 4160 Holley! I do not know specs/compression/cam sadly, BUT in 2002 the motor was FULLY refreshed.

Correction: It was a grounded field. I gotta learn my terms LOL

Hey! This forum has been super helpful so far and I love it. I had a few more questions/concerns about my 440-3's Health. 1. My brand new spark plugs are CHARRED/BLACK on the tips, I'm thinking its a bad air/fuel mix but I'm not too sure. 2. Coolant POURS out on shutdown, I need to get an...

Got it fixed! Turns out the last alternator was a one wire, the new one works great. It seems to have a slight howling sound to it however? But none the less its awesome. Thank you all so much!

I appreciate you greatly for your kindness and patience. I tried my best to make it easy to diagnose! I do have one more question however, I was looking into replacements and saw these... how do you feel about these? I'd like to be able to tell if they're grounded or not and was hoping you...

It's just like that red one! Black 3/4 line going around

Understood! I'll get to shopping then, thank you so much for all of your insight. I'll keep you updated. Feel free to drop alternator recommendations as well!

I see I see, so the simplest solution is to purchase a new dual field alternator... Makes me wonder if I could take my current alternator and just make it a single wire setup?

Would It matter if my motor is a 74? I know all of the 70+ charging systems are the same BUT I'm just curious. But to sum it up... my alternator is fried pretty much?

This is super insightful thank you so much, I am a little confused however [im super new to all of this] So, if my issue is the GREEN wire being grounded out internally, how can I go about fixing that? It looks IDENETICAL to the 2nd alternator you sent with the blue circle. So I guess it is...

I had a feeling its weird! I'll take a look at the resistance as well, what makes it worse is I believe its been overcharging its whole life!