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Jan 09, 2018

Replace Fire Hazard Ford 2-G Alternator With Better 3-G

This You-Tube video is an aid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhHk7TX3ws Older alternator mid eighties to early nineties High amp 2-G model offers 75 amps High amp 3G small case model offe...

BFL13

Explorer II

Jan 09, 2018

This too:

http://www.fourwheeler.com/how-to/electrical/1612-ford-alternator-upgrade-for-more-battery-charging-power/

Not clear on the voltage regulator. It says the 3G has an internal regulator so only needs the one wire instead of the fire- prone plug. The other info seems to say you still need the voltage regulator plug going to a 3G (or I got mixed up?)

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