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What Year is This Volvo Alternator? 200

posted by  MSW on  Mon Jan 12 06:43 CST 2004
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Perhaps my non-mechanically-inclined terminology is at fault...

...Your comments about the "3rd wire" and "2-post setup" confuses me. If we don't consider the Ground wire (which they all need), all the Bosch units with the integrated Brush/Reg. units have 2 wires — the larger B+, and the smaller D+ (which can be either a "ring" terminal on a post, or a female spade that plugs to a recessed male spade)...

This is the "3-wire" setup I meant- A large "hot" wire (1) goes to the battery, a small "hot" wire (2) to the grey connector, and the groundwire (3) goes to the block... at least that's how my '84 was set up. The alternator that came in the car had only two posts- hot to the battery, ground to the block. Didn't work, no terminal for the wire from the firewall. My neighbor's '85, however, didn't have the small wire to the firewall- why is that, I wonder?

Matt






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