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#88219 11/28/2004 4:15 PM | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 235 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 235 | My 60 C10 originaly came with a generater and was wondering if it would be better to put a alternater in it. The truck will be for the most part stock. No electrical add ons. Will mostly be driven on weekends. | | |
#88220 11/28/2004 9:36 PM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | There's nothing wrong with a DC generator system that's properly adjusted and maintained. They worked for a lot of years before we had alternators in general use. One advantage, if you've got a standard transmssion, is the generator can develop enough output on a push start to get you going even with a totally dead battery. The alternator system can't do that. It has to have at least a little battery voltage left to excite the field coils. Unless you're planning to support more electrical accessiries than the truck had originally, a good-working generator shouild be all you need.
Jerry
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#88221 11/28/2004 11:05 PM | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,597 Riding in the Passing Lane | | Riding in the Passing Lane Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,597 | I agree with Hot Rod. Doesn,t he have a great way of explaneing things. 
They say money can't buy happiness. It can buy old Chevy trucks though. Same thing. 1972 Chevy c10 Cheyenne SuperIn the Gallery Forum | | |
#88222 11/30/2004 1:08 AM | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 235 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 235 | Hot rod always has great answers.Thanks. | | |
#88223 11/30/2004 2:23 AM | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 96 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 96 | I am planning to put in a radio in my 61 c10. would that be to much for the generator to handle? thanks | | |
#88224 11/30/2004 2:37 AM | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 336 Member | | Member Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 336 | Radios do not draw a lot of power, so you should be OK. However, I don't know - you may need to upgrade if you want to install a 1,000w amp. 
Gord
1954 1/2 ton 235 4 speed
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#88225 11/30/2004 2:53 AM | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 96 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 96 | well in BC are we allowed to run straight pipes on the classics or do we have to pass air care once with a catalitic converter?? becuase if i can run straight pipes i might need the 1000 watt amp. Also have you been to the carshow in parksville around the time of the sandcaslte show? I believe it was a sunday either in late july or early august? Just wondering
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#88226 12/03/2004 4:02 AM | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 230 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 230 | If it's a 235 , you won't need any muffler ~ I go to the Hollywood cruise ins and etc. Beverly Hills and so on and I've never been stopped as a good running Chevy 6 banger makes a very nice mellow tone ,& won't attract cops attention unless you rev it up & float the valves .
You will need a long exhaust pipe out to the back though .
I've gone through CHP checkpoints this way too , never a problem .
-Nate
There is no problem so difficult it cannot be overcome by generous application of brute force & ignorance
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#88227 12/07/2004 6:16 AM | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 230 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 230 | Be serious : no muffler anywhere in No. America is illegal but lotsa folks do it anyway .
-Nate
There is no problem so difficult it cannot be overcome by generous application of brute force & ignorance
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#88229 12/07/2004 8:16 PM | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 | It's not for noise, it's for flames. You have to have a spark arrestor somewhere in the system. A muffler serves that purpose, and so does a cat, and so does a mesh screen. You don't have to have a muffler as long as you can prove your engine isn't loud enough to need one.
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#88230 12/07/2004 11:05 PM | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,597 Riding in the Passing Lane | | Riding in the Passing Lane Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,597 | If its a narrow belt an alternator pulley will fit.
They say money can't buy happiness. It can buy old Chevy trucks though. Same thing. 1972 Chevy c10 Cheyenne SuperIn the Gallery Forum | | |
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