Classic Vehicle Electrics

14 June 2018

Classic Vehicle – 1970’s passenger bus

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1970's Classic Vehicle Passenger Bus Charging problem

This was an interesting problem to solve,

This bus had dual alternators charging at 24v but only 1 battery.

maybe it had 2 when it was being used commercially.

the owner had changed both the alternators on this bus, thinking that it would cure his charging problem, but no.

he did have a wiring diagram, which helped,

having carried out a charging check and making the alternators charge, I found that the alternators where in fact charging, but no charge getting to the battery or the charging lights going out.

in checking the separate regulators I could see that they were not getting any voltage, but why ?

checking again and following the route of the wiring I found the wiring going into 2 big black boxes, on further investigation I found that these where heavy duty fuses and that the fuses had blown.

fortunately they had spare fuses bolted inside the boxes, changed out the fuses and we had full charging once again.

23 May 2018

Classic Vehicle Electrical Repairs

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Classic Vehicle Electrical Repairs

In amongst all the other vehicle that we work on, we get asked to repair electrical faults on classic vehicles.

Yes we do carry out electrical repairs to classic vehicles.

I like classic vehicle electrical repairs, the vehicles are normally a lot simpler to work on and very rarley

have electronics to complicate the matter.

we don’t work on as many classic vehicles as we do modern vehicles, but over the past 3 months we have worked on quite a few.

This Classic Ford Zephyr was suffering from intermittent loss of the ignition electrics.

A quick diagnosis and we had found the problem, and carried out the electrical repair.

Its always great to see the owners happy again, they spend a lot of time and money on their classic cars / classic vehicles and are happy to see their pride and joy working correctly again.

We have also had the chance to work on a very rare beast this 1965

E Type has been completely rebuilt, everything is as new,

The old engine has been removed and a modern supercharged V8 from a modern Jaguar has been installed, along with the modern Jaguars braking system, which I think it would need with a power plant like that.