65 Valiant Alt not charging battery, GM HEI no ballast conversion

[nick455440]

I have a 65 /6 valiant recently did a 340 install on. I ran the /6 electronic distributor, the GM HEI, ballest delete…for several years with zero issue on the slant six. Ran pretty much the same set up once I put the 340 in and it will start, run, drive great,but slowly kills the battery, I checked the battery while running and the Alt is not charging the battery. The coil was different which the slant six set up and it had a relay, ballast was still deleted, the coil now is a Accel Super Stack 8140-c that I had originally read would be fine with no ballast resistor, re traced every wire and will post pics, any info is appreciated,

 

[nick455440]

I have a 65 /6 valiant recently did a 340 install on. I ran the /6 electronic distributor, the GM HEI, ballest delete…for several years with zero issue on the slant six. Ran pretty much the same set up once I put the 340 in and it will start, run, drive great,but slowly kills the battery, I checked the battery while running and the Alt is not charging the battery. The coil was different which the slant six set up and it had a relay, ballast was still deleted, the coil now is a Accel Super Stack 8140-c that I had originally read would be fine with no ballast resistor, re traced every wire and will post pics, any info is appreciated,

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Also wanted to add everything is new I no the car and engine, the alternator does have 2 Field posts/connections instead of just one if that matters

 

[Professor Fate]

By your diagram, it doesn't appear that you grounded your second field. That needs to be done for the alternator to work.
And I don't see where you've got a voltage regulator wired in?

 

[nick455440]

Will ground the second field and see if it charges. I think I miss labeled it as ignition relay on the diagram, it’s the black box that has field and ingnition, I do have the wired up currently, thanks

 

[67Dart273]

The object you are calling "ignition relay" is likely the voltage regulator. If you have that wired, and using a 70 or later alternator, yes, you need to ground that second field.

If the harness is original, the wires connecting to the VR should green for the field, and dark blue for the IGN terminal

Once you get it working, a better way overall would be to convert to the 70 and later regulator which will require 1 more wire, and the matching connector pigtail for the VR

 

[nick455440]

That worked, I ran a ground from the extra field and the battery started charging, crazy how one thing/step can make or break