Well I’m still having fun and making progress, and coming up with questions!
the good new, Grover has successfully made It back and forth to town a couple of times now (50km round trip). While that’s not the intended use, it will be fun to let others see and enjoy her from time to time, so that brings me to question 1.
With a decent tail wind, I can keep it steady at 90km/hr at 4000 RPM. Power wise, she doesn’t have much more to give, but I’m fine with that. I just want to make sure that’s in the healthy operating range. Oil pressure is at about 60 psi and water temp at about 170 F, and no scary clanks from the drivetrain. So does that sound about right?
On to the second question, where there is an odd noise involved. So, battery is not charging, or is not charging consistently (learned that the hard way on one of the trips to town). This discovery coincided with me building up the courage to take out the ‘custom dash’ and gauges and start troubleshooting lighting issues. It matches what the previous owner did under the hood, it’s functional, but ugly. Got the lights working by cleaning fuse holders and sockets, couple new fuses, cleaning corroded connections, etc. On one of my next test drives, when I turned vehicle off, the red ignition light came on and I could hear a whirring under the hood. Not a starter, too quiet. Lifted the hood and to my surprise can belt it still turning and the alternator appears to be driving it. Disconnected the battery, stopped, reconnected, no problem. It’s happened three or four times now. I had no idea that I was looking at a dynamo and not an alternator. So, that’s question 2. Is that a symptom of a bad dynamo, or should I chase down the wiring first? What is the function of the module that the power lead from the battery goes to before it goes to ignition module?
thanks!