voltage regulator wire

[blakehunt]

My red light came on last night and hasn't gone off since. I was looking around in the engine compartment and noticed an unattached wire next to the voltage regulator. I have a 67 and the wire is coupled with the blue wire which goes from the red light to the lower left hand corner of the regulator. I can't see any place for this other wire (which is brown) to go. It seems like it should be ground. I don't know if maybe the tab it attached to broke off. The other morning it didn't turn off until I had driven for a couple minutes so maybe I need to replace the regulator and/or generator. Can someone look in their engine compartment and tell me where this wire should go? I'm hoping this is the problem and I don't have to replace anything. Thanks,

Blake

[wastintime]

There should be one brown wire from the generator hooked up to the regulator. There is a ground wire right next to the regulator, could that be it? There should be five wires hooked up to the regulator total. 3 from the generator, 1 (black) from the battery, and 1 (blue) to the instruments. Also a yellow wire from the started should be loose.

[adot]

Blake

Maybe that brown wire is the should be loose yellow wire. . The brown one on the reg. is a thick brown wire.

Try pushing on the brushes with the car running.

Good luck in finding/rebuilding the small dia. generator. Had mine rebuilt/exchanged 3 times with 2 week down time, each time. Only lasted about 2 months. I went with the Large (NEW) generator you can find anywhere.

GoodLuck

Brett

[blakehunt]

Thanks for the help. I think that it is the yellow wire. It's hard to tell colors with old dirty wires. Guess I better check the generator!

Blake

[wastintime]

before doing anything with the generator you might just want to slap on a new $18 regulator or test the old one and see what happens. It's cheap enough that you don't really lose either way.