'62 help

["Larri Stumpf" <moparlarri76@xxxx>]

On the subject of alternators/regulators heres my two cents worth: first I 
strongly recommend that you put some sort of protection in the output 
circuit of the alternator, I've seen several mopar alternators that the 
output post shorted to ground and therefore smoked the wire and any other 
wire close to it all the way back to the battery(that means from the 
alternator thru the firewall to the amp meter back thru the firewall to the 
battery), real messy if not devastating.I put a 50 amp resetable circuit 
breaker in line on the passenger side of the firewall( i've been able to get 
these at the local car stereo installation shop). Secondly, as more and more 
of us upgrade our ignition systems to electronic distributors heres a tip: 
the electronic distributors dont like the old points style voltage 
regulators and we dont like the look of the new solidstate style 
replacements... I've found that the replacement regulaters that Auto Zone 
sells are acually solidstate and phisically about the same as the old point 
style just not as tall and if you take the cover off the old points style 
reg and cut the bolt down flanges off it will fit right over the new style.I 
actually have been collecting the oldest of the regulators that had the 
foward look stamped into them for years and even had a rubber stamp made to 
put the original warning, etc on a freshly painted cover.It looks nos and 
works great, larri




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