Posted by fixerupper on May 28, 2010 at 19:13:14 from (207.199.205.40):
My son's friend bought his grandpa's super nice super M that's about as nice and origional as a tractor that age can be. It wasn't charging so he called me to look at it. I was in a hurry so the first thing I did was ground the field and it did charge, so I told him the regulator was bad and I left. Today he replaced the reg and still no charge. I looked at it this eve and I first checked to see if it was wired wrong, but that was OK. Then I grounded the field and it charged. Then I clipped a jumper wire to the regulator ground strap and grounded the jumper to what I think was a clean ground. There was still no charge and I was so stinking tired I couldn't think straight, so I gave it up till morning.
The old regulator looked like it might the origional from the factory so what I'm asking you Farmall guys is do I have a mis-matched genny-regulator? Was there a change in replacement parts sometime through the years? He probably does have the right reg and I simply haven't found the problem yet, but just out of a whim I thought I'd ask. Jim
Oh yeah, he did put an 8 volt battery in it and it's hooked up positive ground.
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