Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:02:10 -0800
Reply-To: Bill Kasper <dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU>
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From: Bill Kasper <dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Alternator wobble? questions...
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ah, i think that lego piece is the dealer's plug for some sort of test
equipment. i misunderstood which piece you were talking about.
and i say fatal: mine was, for the simple fact that it was wobbling so
much it had cracked the lower bracket and was ready to torque off the
bolt that holds that on.
ymmv.
b
On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 02:29 , Joe Tu wrote:
> Really, the wobble is fatal, seems like I've been driving it like that
> for a
> while now and it hasn't blown up on me. And it's not the voltage
> regulator I
> think, that doesn't have any wires coming out of it, It's a little
> rectangular rubber box, like the size of a lego piece and it has one
> wire
> out of it and plugs in to some connector that looks like it connects to
> the
> diode plate? I'm still getting a charge on my volts gauge. Thanks for
> the
> heads up tho.
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Kasper [mailto:dragonlist@ipmts.ucsc.edu]
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:13 PM
> To: Joe Tu; vanagon
> Subject: Re: Alternator wobble? questions...
>
>
> hi, joe. that wobble was fatal to my alternator. it's the cup bearing
> that holds the shaft at the end, and if it's gone it's new alternator
> time; apparently it's too expensive to rebuild them that way.
>
> the little black box is your voltage regulator, which contains the two
> brushes that pass along the juice to your van. the whole box is
> replacable with an adjustable regulator, but don't mess with it if you
> need a new one.
>
> and it sounds like you do. sorry.
>
> bill
> '87 syncro westfalia
> santa cruz, ca
>
>
> On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 02:02 , Joe Tu wrote:
>
>> I noticed my alternator naking some light knocking noises so I checked
>> it
>> out today. Turns out there is some play in the shaft, I think it's from
>> the
>> bearing in the back of the housing. Also I noticed one of the little
>> connectors came unsoldered in the back, it's the one that connects to
>> the
>> little black rubber box thing. What does that little box do anyways?
>> There's
>> two of them actually, another one connects to the little binding post
>> for
>> the little wires. Are any other people experiencing this play in their
>> alternators? If I recall it's a rebuilt one I bought a while ago. I
>> tried to
>> take the darned thing apart, but the screws are on so darned tight
>> and I
>> stripped the phillips heads trying to get them off.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>
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