Gary,
Just a suggestion. You might want to clean the contacts in the voltage
regulator with a burnishing tool or very fine emery cloth. Be sure to clean both
sides of the contacts.
I had some NOS Lucas distributor points that were “brand new” 20 years ago,
and looked perfect, but when I replaced the worn points with the new ones,
the car wouldn’t start. My ohmmeter showed no circuit to gnd with the points
closed. The emery cloth removed the invisible coating and the car started
with no problem.
You should also remove the band around the generator and make sure the
brushes still have some travel left and are not being held from making good
contact against the armature by the brush connecting wires.
Larry J
660636Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:04:59 +0100
From: “Gary King” garyking@bellatlantic.net
Subject: Re: [xk] xk120 charging problem
In reply to a message from Gary King sent Sat 12 Nov 2005:
Tested the wire to the field connection and it is fine, so that’s
not the problem.
Gary K.
The original message included these comments:
Possibly, your field wire (the wire which runs from the small
field terminal on the back of the generator to the voltage
regulator) is bad, or is not making electrical contact.