Car: 1951 Commander fitted with a 289 GT engine, 12 volt system and Delco Remy generator.
Flat battery on Monday morning after a car show on the Saturday (round trip of about 2 hrs). Charged battery overnight and drove to work this morning. During which I noticed the Ampmeter staying on '0' while driving, back to a 1/4 'Discharge' at idle in traffic, then jumping up to a 1/4 on 'Charge' on take off, then slowly drifting back to '0', even at 50 mph. I've tested the generator which passed all tests, but instead of putting out the stated 35 or so amps, put out 80 amps. (with the regulator disconnected). Which has lead me to believe it's a faulty regulator. (One of the resistors on the back of the regulator is burnt out).
So my question is: Is the generator faulty showing 80 amps, and is this why the resistor burned out? I don't want to go fitting a new regulator and burn it out as well.
Flat battery on Monday morning after a car show on the Saturday (round trip of about 2 hrs). Charged battery overnight and drove to work this morning. During which I noticed the Ampmeter staying on '0' while driving, back to a 1/4 'Discharge' at idle in traffic, then jumping up to a 1/4 on 'Charge' on take off, then slowly drifting back to '0', even at 50 mph. I've tested the generator which passed all tests, but instead of putting out the stated 35 or so amps, put out 80 amps. (with the regulator disconnected). Which has lead me to believe it's a faulty regulator. (One of the resistors on the back of the regulator is burnt out).
So my question is: Is the generator faulty showing 80 amps, and is this why the resistor burned out? I don't want to go fitting a new regulator and burn it out as well.
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