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idle rpm how to speed up
11 Dec 2014 06:36 #132054
by facade
Mine seized solid on Saturday.
Freed up when I took it off :evil:
Turns out that the stator rusts through, starts to fall apart and pieces jam up the works, attracted by the rotor when it is working.
Quite common with older units apparently.
Electrically they are fine :whistle:
Fitted a new one, rather than another 15 year old one that will shortly do the same.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
Replied by facade on topic idle rpm how to speed up
kirkynut wrote: the alternator does a good job and I don't hear of them failing.
Mine seized solid on Saturday.
Freed up when I took it off :evil:
Turns out that the stator rusts through, starts to fall apart and pieces jam up the works, attracted by the rotor when it is working.
Quite common with older units apparently.
Electrically they are fine :whistle:
Fitted a new one, rather than another 15 year old one that will shortly do the same.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
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12 Dec 2014 00:14 #132158
by facade
Hardly any really, I reckon it can't have done much more than 140,000 (speedo was replaced (clocked more likely) and lost a lot of miles 2 years before I got it).
Nothing lasts nowadays :whistle:
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
Replied by facade on topic idle rpm how to speed up
kirkynut wrote: I think it had a right to die after 15 years and how many miles?
Kirkynut
Hardly any really, I reckon it can't have done much more than 140,000 (speedo was replaced (clocked more likely) and lost a lot of miles 2 years before I got it).
Nothing lasts nowadays :whistle:
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
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