MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Alternative charging sources. The Gould is a 24 volt charger. The 50DN Delco is also a 24 volt charger. Also I picked up a 200 foot spool of 300 MCM space shuttle surplus wire at Lockheed. Teflon. Silver plated. The lugs were pricey though about eight dollars each. Twelve cells is 24 volts. The twin cells have a pair of 15" X 1" X 4" paralleling buss bars that I can hacksaw to isolate a bad cell. Then I will have a single 24 volt string, and a cherry picked 12 volt string left.
56 volt regulators for alternators are pretty scarce. Push comes to shove, I can rob the Niehoff off the bus and substitute it for the Delco on the Lombordini. Air cooled and N-O-I-S-Y But she gotta the nice lines...
If she's Italian, she's got the Fix It Again Tony syndrome.
My father owned a Fiat, the day he sold it was one of the happiest days of my life. Broke 3 clutch cables in it's lifetime, the distributor had the ability to throw itself out of timing, drive gear would somehow disengage from the gear on the crank driving it, permanent camber alignment problem that no amount of custom work could fix, and a never ending nightmare getting spare parts for it.
I doubt I will ever again own something Italian for transportation needs.
