Re: REGULATOR/

[Jacob Haagerup <digest@domain.elided>]

On lxrdag, feb 15, 2003, at 17:43 Europe/Amsterdam, Ferdinando Di
Matteo wrote:

> Jacob, if your alternator has abuilt in regualtor, it is really not
> built in, it is mounted on the bck end of the alternator. It wouuld
> have two wires going to it, a thick red a thin green.
> The type with external regulator has wires attached to the alternator
> with a connector on the other end to plug into the external regulator.
>  Can you reas the name plate type on the Bocsh alternator?  Fred
Fred.

Thanks for your quick reply. My alternator indeed has a thick red wire
going to the battery + and a thin green which disappears into the loom
going through the bulkhead. My concern was that the thin green one has
a connector where it joins the rest of the loom, right where I would
have expected an external voltage regulator to be mounted to the
fender. With all the other half-assed repairs which some PO or other
has done to my car I wouldn't have put it beyond him to have simply
done away with the regulator when it stopped working.

However, your e-mail gives me some confidence that the regulator is
built in and I will check the numbers tomorrow when I go to get my baby
running. By the way, I checked the spares catalogue on the CarDisk and
I didn't see any alternators mentioned without an external regulator -
hence my question to the esteemed Digest.

Thanks again and good to be back.

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