So in the ongoing saga which is half track ownership, my voltage regulator died. I did the tests as ref'd in the TM and bypassed it with a jumper cable. Man, at 1100 rpm my ammeter spiked at +100 and the generator was putting out 18.5 volts. Needless to say I pushed in on the throttle cable to reduce the amps down to a respectable 55 in a hurry. I didn't smell any wires burning so hopefully I didn't fry anything putting that much current through it. I'll probably find a blackened mouse some day under the dash board with his teeth around a bare wire.
Long story short, I told my tale of woe to a good buddy of mine. He's now giving me one of his spare voltage regulators new in the package to plop in my m3a1. That's mighty nice of him but now I feel like a mooch. This now leads me to three questions;
1. Does anybody know what the going rate for a nos one of those is? I'd like to perhaps get a new one to
replace his or take him out to dinner. Hopefully these things aren't too expensive so the dinner doesn't
have to be in France or something.
2. Do we know of anybody who repairs bad voltage regulators or are they so readily available that nobody
bothers?
3. Can I just through this new one in there and expect it to work correctly or do I need to adjust something
with those fingers in there?
Pardon my ignorance.
Thanks,
Chris
