75 GT 1600 Jr. M: Voltage regulator.

[Jacob Haagerup <digest@domain.elided>]

When starting to tackle the mess a leaking brake master cylinder left 
on my left inner fender a few other things showed up - like the 
structural beam under the radiator having all but disappeared.

So now we are a year on and the engine is back in the repainted and 
welded engine bay. Things have been put back together and the engine 
has been fired up, although it starts as poorly as it always has. Need 
to gap the valves I guess.

Anyways. When wiring things up I realized that I don't have a voltage 
regulator sitting on the left inner fender (which is now looking nice 
and red after the peeling rubbery paint left by the brake fluid has 
gone). There has never been a voltage regulator there in the time that 
I have owned this car and I only realized that there probably should be 
one when going over the wiring diagram to get things to work again.

At first I thought that I might have a different type of alternator 
with a built-in regulator but it doesn't appear to be the case. How bad 
is this? Am I about to explode everything electric or slowly wear it 
down to the point where I need to change EVERYTHING? Wouldn't it have 
happened by now if it were a true problem?

Fred?

Jacob Haagerup,
Rotterdam, Nederland
'75 GT 1600 Jr. M 1.8
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