MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
GM CRIMPED the stator leads to the #8 ring terminals that fit the rectifier. They should have been soldered. One bad connection throws the stator WYE into imbalance which overheats the other two phases. Cooked stator windings are no longer translucent mahogany colored. They burn black and the destroyed varnish flakes off the bare copper.
Then the OE smoke and mirrors "turbine" fan spins in circles and does nothing.
Politely inform your rebuilder if he refuses to cough-up the name of his Warehouse distributor, I shall but a curse on his voltage regulators, dooming him to endless comebacks. Heh heh heh.
BTW the large frame Ford 70-90-100 amp alternators suffer from the same stator lead to ring terminal destruction. These are the old style alternators wit external regulator. Amazing ain't it? Ford and GM now solder all internal connections. I never built an alternator that did not have soldered stator leads.
Yeah, but this rig is only 30 years old. You're like... what? A hundred and two???
OK. A buck Oh five on the odometer plus 30 years is not spring chicken status. I wasn't initially surprised at it's timely death. Just all coincidence, I suppose.
Yeah, crazy that they crimped 'em back then. It's not like the soldering iron hadn't been invented yet! Amazing they last beyond a couple hundred kilometers. Perhaps Arnold and Hulk Hogan were hired on as the crimpers.
Now bear in mind... my rebuilder is in the standard Mex naysayer camp. He's not kicking and screaming, but he ain't exactly endorsing this mod. It was the 3rd fan of 3 after a bit of rummaging. It was quick because he's organized. I doubt he has crates of these things piled up in the back with a barge of 'em steaming its way over from The Orient as I type. But I'll ask when I pick it up today.
