Help Folks,I'm having some generator/electrical problems with my 8N. Yesterday, the pully on the generator froze up, so I took the unit off and got a rebuilt one from the Ford man. I hooked it up the same as the old generator - black wire to generator's upper terminal and white wire to lower terminal. The third wire (also white but longer) goes to a terminal on the back of the generator. I started the tractor and the fan and everything else seems to go around and around just fine, but the ammeter rests at zero - showing no charge or discharge. Ammeter did this with the old generator too. I used the 8N to cut brush (hog) for about an hour and then shut the thing off. When I tried to restart it a few minutes later, the battery was dead. I'm an idiot at this stuff, so I hope some of you more experienced N'ers can give me a hint. Do you think it's the voltage reg. or do I have the generator leads wired up wrong or what? An old 8N tractor is quite a challege for a city guy like me to keep running. But, it reminds me of a creaky old dog I once had. Pepper couldn't even bark standing up in his last year, but I just kept taking care of him until he finally died in his sleep. Wife won't let me have another dog, so I bought this 8N last month. Now she thinks she should have let me buy the dog. Thanks for any advice you have to offer. Bob
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