alternator question

[spudsterier]

does anyone know if this alternator will work on my 68 valiant?
it has 2 spade terminals on the back and my wiring harness on has 1. if it will work, any idea which terminal i use?
thanks for any help
(sorry the pic is kinda blurry)

 

[evanbrendel]

ground one speade and hook one spade to the field on your voltage regulator thats what i had to do on my 67 belvedere when i used a double pole alternator

 

[daredevil]

the spades are fieldwires. i believe you just use a jumper. early alts used one field instead of two. search alternators on the forums.

 

[fishy68]

ground one speade and hook one spade to the field on your voltage regulator thats what i had to do on my 67 belvedere when i used a double pole alternator

This is correct. You want to ground one and hook your single wire from the original alt. to the other.

 

[spudsterier]

does it matter which one i ground and which one i hook to the regulator?

 

[camd64]

See the little tag on the top field connection, what does it say?

 

[evanbrendel]

no it dosent matter wich one you ground or wich one you hook to the field on your regulator

 

[spudsterier]

See the little tag on the top field connection, what does it say?

the tag says:
WARNING
DISCONNECT REGULATOR BEFORE TROUBLESHOOTING

what would be a good grounding point for one of the spades?

 

[grumpuscreature]

Mine's grounded to the alternator case.

 

[camd64]

Most just put a small jumper to the case using the small threaded hole next to the field connector.

 

[spudsterier]

thats basically what i did earlier....hope it works

 

[evanbrendel]

topo see if its working start the car and unhook the negative battery cabel you will know if it keeps running its fixed

 

[spudsterier]

topo see if its working start the car and unhook the negative battery cabel you will know if it keeps running its fixed

hopefully i will be able to do that within the next month or 2 once the motor is finished