Pay $50 or $150... Your choice. PS Gen tech!

This is a pretty narrow field for this type of tech... but... it does help! It's for the guys who have the power steering pump mounted behind the generator. I think Chevy started with them in 1955 and it stopped in 1959.

When I fried a PS generator I was annoyed as hell when I found out a regular generator was like $40 and a PS generator is about $150. I got to tinkering around in the garage with all my **** and then I figured it out...

(Remember... I'm the guy who thinks electrical systems is basically a shocking experience, but even <font color="red"> I </font> made it through this.)

9 times out of 10 it's something inside the generator that gets toasted... usually the brushes or one of the wires in the casing etc. It's almost never a bearing or the shaft.

SO... I just go buy a standard rebuilt generator for $40... take it apart and I re-use the rebuilt casing and the front plate of the generator (bearing etc). I use the old back plate and the shaft from the PS generator. They're all the same except for the back plate which has the hole for the shaft to go out to the PS pump... and the shaft itself.

So next time you're driving your '59 or whatever and you toast your PS Generator... save yourself a $100 or more and do it this way.

And don't forget to replace your voltage regulator while you're at it.

Travis

 

Very cool, I had one of those on my 57 Pickup(ps pump didn't work tho), it was definatly an interesting piece.
-Jesse

 

Oh yes I've done this many times. Saves alot of money. I'm really cheap.. I also save the new housing.. when the guts go bad.. I just put them back in and take the lifetime warranteed generator for a free replacement.