HELP!!!.... seriously though if you read my previous post you will note that I recently replaced my voltage regulator with great sucess... so I drove for two weeks no problems.....yeah.... then this morning I was checking oil etc and shut hood... get in car and the gen. light is on knowing that I just bumped the wires from the gen to voltage regulator no biggie i get to work no problems fastforward to quitting time. I hop in fire up the falcon and the gen light is on dangit i'm gonna fix this thing so I hop out of car open hood wiggle wire from gen to vr close hood get back in light off great Suddenly..... smoke lots and lots of white smoke from under the hood I kill the key open hood unhook ground from battery quickly only to find the following. The wire going from the voltage regulator to the gen. light on the dash has MELTED yes melted out of it's pretty isulative coating.... this is bad very very bad.. so I cut the wire after all it only activates the light if the generator is charging right cool i can fix it later. well start to hook up battery and sparks.. damn still have a short.... so I unhook the vr wire that comes from the gen to the bottom post of the vr. problem solved no spark. I made it home ok now there's my problem let's hear some good hypothesis on what happened my thoughts were that when my vr crapped out and i had back feeding problems that it shorted the windings on the gen. causing it to do something crazy.? the only reason i say this is I tested the yellow and black wire for continuity and perfect however if I test continuity on the gen itself if I test from the f? post to the post on back where the wire goes i get approx 4ohms resistance this is not right? I have no idea? across the fpost and the other there is no resistance but across the other and the power out I get 4ohm +- as well. so I came to the conclusion that the generator shorted out and is bad what says you?
I hate Generators and regulators with a Passion! I use GM one wire alternators on my cars, trucks and tractors. I even use the one wire on my 292 Ford Problem solved for the price of a generator OR a regulator.
I hate to be rude and am not really trying to be so but when you don't know what the hell you are doing it is often better to go pay someone who does and get it done right the first time. I hate taking my rigs to anyone else to have anything done as much as anyone on here but there comes a time when it is the wise thing to do and this looks like one of those times. Find a shop that knows how to work on the old stuff get it fixed, pay the money, and go cruising and stand a whole lower chance of getting stranded or burning the wiring up. If that isn't your style, find a Falcon manual that has the generator wiring diagrams and test procedures in it and study them and then find an old auto mechanics text book and study the section that covers generators <input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden">
An occasional release of the smoke that has accumulated in the wiring harness is a time-honored maintainance item on British vehicles, but I'm not sure it has the same beneficial effects on American iron. I would advise attempting to recapture as much of the original wiring smoke as possible, while trying to minimize smoke from any unrelated sources (campfires, leaf burning, reefer madness, et al). Once collected, the smoke can easily be reinserted in the wiring harness. Simply go to any local British automobile repair center and ask to borrow or rent their Lucas U-2122/77 "Smoke Collection Apparatus - Mk IV". This unit can operate on your standard household current by the simple expedient of rewiring the entire home (positive earth ... never forget) and incorporate a standard 7-prong Lucas plug socket. Remember, the U-2122/77 is designed to collect smoke from the wiring harness, thereby easing strain on the outer wire covering. In your application, you will be reinstalling the smoke into your harness. Unless you lucked upon the U-2122/77.2, which incorporates a "reverse" feature, simply rewire your home to it's original specification while the unit is plugged in. See ... easy peasy! Hope this helps.
lol great responses and yeah it might be better to just take it some where but hell i'm gonna try again anyway just thought someone might have an idea but no you didn't come across rude I just figure it's worth dicking with and I'll learn sumtin I mean it's a pretty simple machine I work on cnc equipment most days and there's more circuts on one part of those machines thans in my whole car but anyway thanks for your time guys
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