Yours is an early style, so not sure on that. On the later style, 70 and up, relay 12 volts out goes to ignition terminal on regulator, and field. You may want to consider going to the later dual field alternator with solid state regulator. They work better, put out more amps, and just better all around. It really is fairly simple once you understand what each connection/wire does.
Mine always stays at 14 volts now too, after installing the relay. I don't think it hurts anything. Just keeps the battery up fully charged
Allright Tom, Good Job! Happy to help. Sorry I've been a little out of touch the last couple of days, we had a death in the family so I've been quite busy.
Mine runs at 14.6 volts when fully charging. I think you'll be fine.
I have a dual field alternator and the regulator is the rectanglular chrome one, not the small black box. Regulator has an I terminal, and a field terminal. So 12 V from the ignition switch goes to the I terminal, and also to 1 side of the Alt field. Other side of the regulator goes directly to the Alt field connection.
That's exactly what I did. Problem solved, no flickering lights and charges at 14.6 volts (I set it at that with an adjustable regulator).
The flickering typically is because of dirty contacts in the ignition switch. Make sure you are feeding the relay from a battery source such as the starter relay stud. The relay coil can be triggered off of the ignition switch. Did you happen to see the diagram I uploaded here?
Also an adjustable voltage regulator might help as the voltage may be low at idle causing a small fluctuation in the lights. Are they fluctuating when you're driving down the road?
Yes, except when he turns on the headlites, the engine starts cranking! No kidding! He has a thread on here.
