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#88934 08/16/2003 2:38 AM | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 53 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 53 | Shop manual says that I need a growler to test the armature, but I don't seem to have one laying around. Any way short of finding building a growler to test the armature?
I replace the brushed and everything else checks out fine. I think I'm going to stick it back together tomorrow and see if it works. If not, I guess I can assume the arm is bad. Wish me luck!
53 Dumpy
1951 Chevy 3100 "Ernestine"
1970 Chevrolet C10 "Ol' Blue"
1940 JD "long-hood" B
1959 Jeep FC-170
1960 IH B275
2013 Chevy Silverado
2023 GMC Denali 2500HD
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#88935 08/16/2003 5:19 AM | Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 | To use that growler properly you also need a worn out hacksaw blade. Try to find some old mechanic who works on starters and generators, he'll have one.
Along with the growler you need the commutator lathe. After smoothing the commutator, it had a cutting wheel to regroove the commutator. When I turned wrenches in the early seventies, the shop I was at rebuilt our own starters, alternators, generators, steering boxes and carbs. Back then our labor was still less than the rebuild shops, and the boss said our quality was higher. His theory was that if we couldn't rebuild it, to replace with new parts.
Fred
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69 C-10
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#88936 08/21/2003 5:31 AM | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 31 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 31 | Out here in the PNW a "growler" is a jug used to transport micro brews... I know exactly where mine is! Sorry to hear you can't find yours!.... Party fowl! :p :p
Thomas Mott
1949 GMC 250
1957 Dodge COE c-700
1959 Chris Craft 17' w/big journal 327 for more power
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#88937 08/27/2003 5:00 AM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 29 Member | | Member Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 29 | My "growler" is out back at this moment annoying the "tree rats"... 
Use a big enough catapult and even pigs can fly...remember nothing is impossible, impractical yes, but never impossible.
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