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Ron/PA

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The generator on the 65 hasn't been working right since I brought it home. I took an hour this morning and put a one wire alternator on it.
Only had to do some minor bracket work and the rest bolted right up.

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Ron
 
Looks good, I have done many. If you see a charging problem at idle you can go with a smaller pulley. I use 2 1/2" pulleys on my tractor alternators.
 
OH NO!!! Harry Ferguson is spinning in his grave at this very moment!

Actually, that's the fastest, bestest way to solve your problem as far as I'm concerned. I've used the same type of alternator on a number of old tractors. I get them rebuilt at a local auto electric shop. He sets them up with a "low cut in" where they self excite at 750 rpm.
 
I think Harry would be saying if he had alternators like that when he was building tractors he would be using them to.
 
Tough call there. Harry didn"t care much for "fancy stuff". He got bent outta shape when the Massey marketing people wanted to drop his basic grey color in favor of brighter paint schemes. Sounds kind of odd coming from a guy who was a pioneer in developing "modern convenience" items like 3-point and draft control and his all-wheel drive system that was used on an F1 race car.
 
That's my favourite way too of curing a sick generator.. The best possible favor you can do to yourself if it's not a parade machine.

Changing the world, one generator at a time :twisted:
 
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