<VV> Generator nut

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

>I'm disassembling a '62 generator for cleaning and painting, but can't
>remove the pulley nut. Is the shaft nut right or left hand thread ?  
>

Jim --

Originally the generators are reverse threaded, but this is the question 
we need to ask of you -- is it a righty or a lefty?  Meaning, is it an 
original Corvair armature, or has the generator ever been repaired by 
replacing the armature with a non-Corvair unit, which is not reverse 
threaded. You have to look at the exposed threads carefully -- while the 
nut is a hardened steel, the shaft isn't, and it is easy to strip the 
threads, meaning then that you too could then be looking for a 
replacement armature.

Or, horrors, it could already be stripped, and the nut was just jammed 
back on until it held, and now doesn't want to turn either direction 
...   well, it *is* a possibility ...