Alternator.

This is a actually a focus on the alternator over a few days and a change of plan. I had started work on the Lucas alternator with the intention of just giving it a good clean and painting the pulley and the fan. Once opened and stripped it didn’t look too bad and the brushes and pickup still had life.

After cleaning I put it all back together and was pretty happy with how it had scrubbed up.

Whilst I slept, the Alternator, in the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger, said I’ll be back.

I decided that the front bearing not being 100% was enough of a reason to give it some proper life extension work and so completely strip it it down and replace all the consumables. Luckily most past are readily available as they were installed in one heck of a lot of British cars.

They also have the advantage of being built to be repaired and not chucked in landfill.

It should be noted that all the parts in MOD recon blue were that colour when I got the vehicle and this all ties in with the change from 24V to 12V that seems to have been in service so I go with age appropriate parts.