I am honored and humbled for a comparison of my working technique.
I am careful and also, go over everything with a fine block, file or brush.
I don't give a damn about their disposable society, i am a fixer, and need my truck as most other things running smooth for a long good time now.
Thank you so much for the very kind words.
I went out to the bone yard lookin for some of these loose ends ..
I weren't too optimistic, because I pretty much never find an idi, and if I do, it's always stripped. But I got a hold of a good'n.
Sure enough, got that dipstick, tube and bracket. Plus a nice ol' grimy Injection Pump, and three spare fuel sticks.
Gonna have to order that dipstick block adapter, unless they still stock em at a dealership, I'll check on it.
I went ahead and grabbed parts for a 130a alternator swap, I was gonna stick with the external regulated 70a, but the cost is the same, so figured i'd give it a shot.
I might want to put in a rad fan at some point, and my little old 45.2 rockford amp always dims the headlights..
The ladies were great, didn't even charge me for half the stuff I pulled, and the other parts guy kept trying to tell her about this and that that I got too, but she wouldn't ring em up, so freebies.
I got the 3g alt, 2-4au?, big gauge hookup wire, loom with yellow, and green red stripe wires and plug, regulator attached, injection pump, 3 injectors, dipstick, tube, bracket, a hand full of 30a relays, filter base to IP inlet fuel line with good olives, for 80 bucks.
Today, I got the alternator installed..
Donor was an early 90's lincoln continental, for the alternator and connector wires, the primary wire was sourced from a late 90's grand marquis with eyelets and fused links built to exact length.
I picked the 8.5 in large frame 130a unit clocked 12 o'clock apart, and fit is absolutely exactly as 2g 70a it replaced, perfect fit.
I took the slim fender washer from behind the stock pull nut and put it behind the pulley on the 3g, perfect belt alignment and case clearance.
The pics online varied in most cases from what I found in my 85 so just had to figure it out, but was pretty straightforward. I kept the stock alt harness because it backfed B+ to several yellow wires, doesn't hurt anything to stay hot, keeps old electrical routing unchanged, but clipped out where unneeded terminals were, kept ext voltage regulator, but it is now unused.
Fat wire went to the hot side of GP relay, the yellow went to the hot side of the start relay, which backfed by old alt harness retained to the other stock yellow wiring.
Green w/ red is pulling double duty now, from same color lead from near the external regulator. one to energize the alt as it's supposed to, and 2 it is now powering a 30a relay to activate an electric booster fuel pump, because this was hot on ignition and not acc.
I retained the small red ammeter wire that feeds through hot to the yellow wires in the stock alt harness, but clipped it's small yellow sister, that also was hot, to prevent burning wires or stock ammeter gauges because of high amperage.
The red wire has no outlet for now, but when I put in a volt meter gauge in the stock cluster, that yellow will be geounded to power that gauge.
It's running fine, no more grinding bearings noises from the old alternator. Though that 70a old bass **** was a trooper and earned my respect.
The installation went smooth and it is nice to have my axc fuel pump on that relay, I guess the alternator does what it's supposed to be doing so looks all good.
I'm happy to have found an oe motorcraft that wasn't a rebuild, I will pick up a spare to have just in case, hopefully it proves as reliable as the old alternator.
The ol' Iron Horse is running really great, all that's left is getting that dipstick tube fitted and she'll really be built again.
sooner than later though, as another very soon to do project, I'm gonna replace all the stock incoming fuel lines with 1/2 inch PEX, I have a slight restriction that is a nuicence especially when it's colder out, it's fine with the auxiliary pump plus the mechanical pumps both pulling, but the stock mechanical pump cant keep up alone, and restrictions choke her out on extended highway runs.
So as not to ever worry about the pluged up prone fuel lines, will run pex from tanks to IP and mechanical marine diesel switching fuel valves.
It's fine running for now , just something that I want to do soon to ease the fuel circuit and make sure that the IP has plenty of fuel to keep it cool and long lasting. ...
Blah blah blah, probably tl Dr
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