<VV> Generators vs Alternators Throwing Belts

[MarK Durham]

That brings to mind back in college. My girlfriend (now wife of 43 years)
was on her way up from WSU to see me in Spokane when the alt/gen light came
on on our original 62. She lifted the lid, saw the generator aft mount had
broken then the gen ear and thrown belt, put the lid down, sat on the hood
with her legs crossed, to attract attention, got a lift from some college
guy she knew a few minutes later. I got the parts and took her back down
and in 20 minutes the car was back on the road.
Mark Durham
Hauser, Idaho
On Sep 18, 2015 1:48 PM, "Lonny Clark via VirtualVairs" <
virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:

> I would never advocate going back to generator, I like my lights to work
> when idling.
>
> I was just adding my experience to say that loose belt is better than
> tight, you won't get any looser than broken ear on the the generator. :)
>
> Lonny Clark
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 6:40 PM, <hallgrenn at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a lot of respect for the early model Corvairs--they were  first
> > Corvairs--the vanguard that changed so many ways of thinking about cars.
> > I did things in my family's '61 700 4dr that no one in lesser vehicles
> > could do.  But I still prefer my alternator LMs (and GB alternator
> > conversion).  Are you suggesting that if an alternator is throwing belts
> > that we strap 15 pounds of copper and steel on top to mimic the extra
> dead
> > weight that an early carries around with it's generator?  :}
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lonny Clark via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> > To: Dennis Pleau <dpleau at wavecable.com>
> > Cc: Virtual Vairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> > Sent: Wed, Sep 16, 2015 9:03 pm
> > Subject: Re: <VV> Shop Manual, Corvair Basics Manual, VV
> >
> > I broke an ear off the generator of an early, and I drove it for months
> > with
> > the generator just laying on the top of the engine with one bolt in.
> > And it did
> > not throw a belt in that entire time, and that belt was old -
> > like more that
> > ten years old. You could pull it off without tools, but it
> > would not jump off
> > on its own.
> >
> > Conversely, a few years back I converted it to an alternator, it
> > threw a
> > belt the 3rd time I drove it (and overheated, and lost valve seat,
> > and
> > etc...)
> >
> > Lonny
> >
> > Lonny Clark
> >
> >
> >
> >
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