MadaboutKitcars

Big ouch. Who's a brave boy then!
How did you do it??

Saving a small child from a grizzly bear or on a ladder, you choose

Would've been better if you'd left out the word 'or'. I was once confronted by an angry moose that tried to climb up the aircraft steps I was standing on. No, really I was!

Oh, and you forgot to mention it was for cherity mate.

pforgot to mention it was for cherity mate.

I don't like to talk about that Mate

I was chased around a few bars in Toronto by a 'Cougar'. Was you 'Moose' a similar type of lady?

No, it was your actual four hoofed angry elk in Goose Bay, Newfoundland. It had me trapped on top of the aircraft for about two hours before it got bored and trampled off into the woods.

Sammio Spyder bulkhead finish.

In the interests of keeping things busy, I thought I would take the opportunity post some pictures of our modified bulkhead area. We chose to remove a lot of the original Herald stuff not now required, and will be fitting an alternator - hence the old electrical control box will be redundant. Hope others might like the look !







It took quite a bit of fibreglassing over solid block foam to fill out the voids, and hours of sanding back filler. It is quite carefully sculpted around the clutch and brake master cylinders to leave a small clearance behind them. We plan to put an aluminium header tank in the centre where the heater used to be. Hopefully a tidy finished look under the bonnet when all done.

That looks very slick indeed. Proper factory finished

Something to watch.
BBC iplayer - British Passion on Film - Planes, Trains & Automobiles.

Paul do you want to sell your RB106 dynamo regulator?

mmm confused now, I have a herald with an alternator fitted and the electric regulator box!!! what should I do now?
Pops

Does it work? If it ain't broke, don't fix it...

Alternator

Hi pshyco pops, my vitesse is the same, the wiring is altered inside regulator box, hope this helps
Kev

The alternator has the regulator inbuilt so basically the old regulator has been left as a power distribution point. It can be removed if you want to tidy things up. It's along time since I did one but must be details on net somewhere.

Thanks guys,
Had a quick look along the loom as the net says a lot about bunching and re-soldering wires which i am not keen to do, theres a bit of melting on one wire so will investigate if that links in with info available wouldn't want overheating but then may just be coincidence...Pops

The alternator has the regulator inbuilt so basically the old regulator has been left as a power distribution point. It can be removed if you want to tidy things up. It's along time since I did one but must be details on net somewhere.

Hi Pops,

I was working off other posts on the net saying you could do away with the box or keep it as an improvised junction box if you wish.

Try this link, there are others.
.http://www.northcotts.clara.net/tsscdevon/technical/alternator/alternator.html

Seanick: You are welcome to the box but I think has a burnt out link underneath? Pop round sometime & check if its any use to you, otherwise I will bin it.

Paul.

A lot of the dynamo to alternator conversion instructions tell you to keep the regulator in place and just use it as a handy place for splicing wires together. i.e. they no longer actually use it at all.

I had "a" version of such a conversion on mine when i bought it, but as i couldn't understand how/why they had wired it all together, i ripped it all out and re-did it from scratch so that i now know exactly what does what in my wiring loom!
That also had the added benefit of making the under bonnet look cleaner. Just not clean!

I think I've got a working one. Let me have a rummage.