A welder i reckon....


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South Australia

ON HUNDRED and THIRTY amp alternator!!! Marv, WHAT are you powering???

Nice installation...

NoShortcuts
a.k.a. Charlie Brown
near Syracuse, New York

Here is a pic of a Ford 3G 130 amp alternator installation I did on my 56.
marv

Thanks Frank,

that is a possibility......Appreciate everyone's help with this and all the comments and thoughts.....I'd like to see a car that actually has a 50 or 60 amp system installed in it, cause it seems to big to fit....at least the voltage regulator does :-)

Jeff

Frank's suggestion of using the alternator has merit. My sense is that while Forum members appreciate and enjoy their rides, most of us are not married to things being production original.

Updating things whether it is swapping out Loadomatic distributors for newer units with centrifugal & vacuum advance, switching from distributor ignition points to electronic modules, or swapping transmissions is done to make the ride more trouble free, hassle-free, reliable, and enjoyable.

My recollection is that generators do not charge at engine idle while alternators do. Unless you are involved in concours competition, what advantage is there to using a generator instead of an alternator?

NoShortcuts
a.k.a. Charlie Brown
near Syracuse, New York

Dual Quad, Consider an alternator conversion. Paint it black and only a concours judge will notice.

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

I have seen the 50 amp and 60 amp generators on school buses and utility company service trucks that had two-way radios. They were huge and heavy with dual belts.

If I remember correctly they used two sets of brushes installed side to side so had very long commutator bars for these dual brushes to run on.

My part book says that there was 30, 35 (with AC), 40, 50 and 60 amp 12 volt generators. All these were from 56 to 59. Generators were made by Ford, Bosch and Autolite. And then there was 50 and 100 amp 12 volt alternators.

Tero from Nurmijarvi, Finland

56 Country Sedan, 61 F-100, 61 F-600, 55 F-620, 52 Mercury

http://www.dlc.fi/~teros

http://www.y-block.info

http://www.hollowheads.net

http://www.fordnationals.net

You might want to look at a Lincoln for that large generator.

Butchering up everything I can get my hands on in Dayton Ohio

I believe the police 12 volt cars used a Leece-Neville alternator in place of the generator. Not sure of the amp rating, probably well north of 35 amp. Those early tube type police radios used a lot of power.

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"