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Re: [International Scouts] Re: Bought a lemon, gonna make some lemonade

does the alternator have an internal or external regulator? i had
problems with an external that tweaking the relays helped for a while
until i was able to afford a new one!

On 2/4/09, Gasser, Heather <heather_gasser@...> wrote:
> John,
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>
>
> I suspect the alternator mainly because of what the gages were doing. I
> had initially assumed the her taking awhile to go from the "D" side to
> the "C" side was just because she took awhile to warm up, after all it
> is winter, but it finally got to the point where it didn't switch over
> at all, when I parked and shut her off she wouldn't restart. A friend
> gave me a jump to get me home. We used Eric's Cherokee to jump her and
> managed to get her started one more time after that, now that doesn't
> even get it to turn over. I don't know what impact the temperature is
> having, either. It's been somewhere between five above and ten below
> (sometimes colder) every night for the last three weeks. Even if the
> battery was fine before, it may not be now.

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I just got a beautiful '72 Scout II. She ran for about a month, now it looks like tha alternator may have gone bad. I want to take care of her myself, so I...
Heather Gasser
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Feb 3, 2009
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Heather, They are getting harder to come by. I would recommend checking out binderbooks.com or ...
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Feb 3, 2009
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John, Thanks for the offer, but I'm not sure yet just what I need. With the top on, she's too tall to fit in the garage, and I live in Michigan, where we've...
Gasser, Heather
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Feb 3, 2009
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Heather, You really won't need any special tools or gadgets to take apart an IH engine or any other part on a Scout. A vast majority of a Scout can be...
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Feb 4, 2009
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John, I suspect the alternator mainly because of what the gages were doing. I had initially assumed the her taking awhile to go from the "D" side to the "C"...
Gasser, Heather
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Feb 4, 2009
1:39 pm

Heather, I would definitely have the alt and battery tested at your local auto parts store before you start looking at other things. You should be able to add...
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Feb 4, 2009
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The "Add Photo" links still aren't coming up, nd after looking over more the archived posts, I'm not the only one who's had the problem. I do have a picture...
Heather Gasser
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Feb 5, 2009
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Heather, There's One more thing you might want to check. If you look at the fire wall from the passenger side you will find a round wire connector with 2 10 ga...
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Feb 4, 2009
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does the alternator have an internal or external regulator? i had problems with an external that tweaking the relays helped for a while until i was able to...
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The only specialty tool i needed on my '75 was a plate press to get the steering wheel off, since it wasn't the same size threads as my GM plate press, i...
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Try " books4cars.com"...
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