Thread: Axel info urgent

I'm in Bourke now Brissy tonight . Russell can you give me the name of the guy who does the conversion to alternator.
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Still in the truck much easier than driving myself and cheaper.

There are a number of people around the place who fit various alternator internals inside the housings of Lucas dynamos.

Some of the small Mitsubishi Electric and Nippon Denso alternators on baby sized rice burner cars are small enough to slide inside some Lucas dynamo housings, including using the alternator front mounting and adjuster legs. You then fix the rear of the Lucas housing with the end plate and its original mounting leg/point. (To fix the end plate, you can open the cover band for the brushes on the Lucas dynamo, cut a length of flat bar to fit exactly between the two square holes, you then drill and tap the flat bar to accept the bolts that will clamp the end plate in place and then re-fit the cover band.)

You will have to adapt the Lucas pulley (or get a replacement) for the B section V belt.

You leave the original Lucas regular box in place but swap leads to merely use the regulator as a fashion item and terminal block.

• The "D" terminal is left blank and a heavy Batt wire goes from B+ on the alternator to the "B" terminal on the L regulator with two other wires for the battery and vehicle systems.
• D+ on the alternator can be connected to the "WL" terminal with the warning light wire (which goes to Ign.)

Remember this will convert the vehicle to negative earth, so you will need to swap the terminals on the battery and the ammeter and you should also include a shunt in the ammeter circuit as it will full scale as soon as the alternator starts charging.

It is likely something you could do in your own workshop.

Thanks

Don't have a workshop at the moment moving onto our yacht so will need to get a shop to do this for me. We have sold up in WA and moving to Qld will be cruising the Rast Coast for a while . Will keep the 109 as a run around while in Port.

I bet there are a few landy enthusiasts around the place in Qld who would gladly assist and loan you their garage for the job. But time would be spent away from sailing.