That is an excellent upgrade from the old Dynamo (you call them Generators). If you rolled up at a car show and had the bonnet up no one would know that it had been upgraded unless they inspected the engine bay closely. A nice informative video thanks Steve. 👍👍
Steve another Great video with a lot of Info and little tips packed in a 5 min. video for us Newbies. You're One the Best who stays *grounded* to Teach us & knows what a newbie needs to see by Pointing & showing us part numbers & Much more. The Camera work & Set Up is Excellent and Much Appreciated. Thank You for taking the Extra Time doing that for us. Have a Good Holiday.
Outstanding video. I’d never heard of this conversion. I laughed when you put that crusty, old pully on without blasting and painting it. Just replace and drive on down the road.
I think people should be driving their cars instead of wasting time with things that don’t matter. So many cars never get back on the road because people want it to be put together perfectly or not at all.
@@ThisWeekWithCars Steve, you are exactly right. It’s just really hard to do when the pully is already off. Probably why only one of my three cars is drivable. I’m trying to be better.
I still can't believe you found 6 Bugeye Sprites! What a collection... Have you written your book yet. It would be a great companion to Geoff Healey's book.. great channel Steve.
OUTSTANDING ! One question-you didn't have to change the grounding-those British cars of that era were all "positive earth"-I take it you didn't have to change to a "negative earth"? Great upgrade however-the generators from that time took a LOT of power to operate & they didn't give a lot back in return. When I was a teen-late 70's-I had a '66 MGB & a '65 Midget-BOTH had serious issues with the Prince of Darkness-the Midget actually sheared the Woodruff key retaining the gen pulley !
They sell them both positive and negative ground so you don't have to change your car. It cannot be polarized like a generator though, you have to stick with the polarity that you order.
@@ThisWeekWithCarsA few years back Jay Leno introduced the genernator on his RU-vid channel. He had his original generator from his Cord 812 rebuilt to a genernator. It looks original, but has the innards of an alternator. It made a huge difference on that car. I believe the vendor is in Oregon. His Model A Ford genernator is very popular.
Does that Sprite have an exhaust leak? It sounded a bit rough there both on start up and on the drive to test the alternator swap. Great video there and it's nice to see the old cars being supported with parts so well. I'm jealous that you have them. I'd love to have one to just tool around a bit, especially one of the hard top ones.
Yes the sprite was positive ground originally. The battery is installed 180 degrees to mine and you can see at 4:10 or so a shot of the battery with the negative cable attached to the chassis.
Alternators can be made with positive ground too, Mack trucks used a 12V positive ground alternator and heavy 6V batteries wired in series to make 12V at least up to the mid 70s...
@@ThisWeekWithCars i have seen them. i was just wondering if the dynamator was polarized for a positive earth system. Then I checked their website and saw that you can order either pos or neg.
Yes and if you go positive earth I highly recommend getting one that does not require an extra relay to be installed. The cheaper positive earth models require this.
