David Terry's Journal

I finally got around to addressing the alternator indicator light that had recently begun to glow and determined that the rectifier was giving up the ghost. Given the banjaxed nature of the wiring harness, I chose to replace the alternator with a remanufactured unit from O'Reilly Auto Parts instead of converting to a unit with higher amperage and then rebuild the defective unit for use as a spare.

The actual process of cleaning up the old alternator and replacing the old parts was very simple and took little time. Determining which alternator model I had was more of a challenge. Although many of the resources were equivocal on which model should be in the car(built in March 1976), either a 17ACR or 18ACR, the unit I pulled was clearly an 18ACR. The hard part was determining the correct model and associated rectifier spade configuration. Thanks to a conversation with Mr. Evans at Moss Motors I was able to get the correct parts and proceeded to clean and rebuild. I now have a spare alternator ready to go in the event that its remanufactured sibling currently installed decides to go south.

Now, it's on to replacing the front shocks...