Alternator Conundrum

Some time ago my alternator packed up on my 110 3.5 V8 and all I could get
in a hurry was a 2nd hand one off a 3.5 V8 Disco. The only problem was that
it was the wrong hand and had stud connection rather than spade - no
problem, swivel the end plates and put ring crimps on.

The problem is that it has packed up again and I have bought a recon
alternator for a 110 V8 only to find that the shaft is different. The one
off the disco is smaller and has a Woodruff key, so neither the fan or the
pulley will fit. My question is whether the standard 110 V8 is like the
Disco one (i.e. has a smaller shaft and a key) so that I have to take the
alternator back, or whether I just need to go and get a new 110 V8 fan and
pulley to fit on the new alternator?
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MTIA

Bob Miller
1990 ex-RAF 110 3.5 V8 17KJ83
1967 3/4 ton Sankey 09ES17

On or around Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:08:00 -0000, "Bob Miller"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Some time ago my alternator packed up on my 110 3.5 V8 and all I could get
>in a hurry was a 2nd hand one off a 3.5 V8 Disco. The only problem was that
>it was the wrong hand and had stud connection rather than spade - no
>problem, swivel the end plates and put ring crimps on.
>
>The problem is that it has packed up again and I have bought a recon
>alternator for a 110 V8 only to find that the shaft is different. The one
>off the disco is smaller and has a Woodruff key, so neither the fan or the
>pulley will fit. My question is whether the standard 110 V8 is like the
>Disco one (i.e. has a smaller shaft and a key) so that I have to take the
>alternator back, or whether I just need to go and get a new 110 V8 fan and
>pulley to fit on the new alternator?

depends which model alternator.

The later ones are larger shaft and no key - A127-80, A133-100 and suchlike
numbers. Earlier ones have the key as you describe.

do you still have the original one that packed up?
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"The boys are dreaming wicked or of the bucking ranches of the night and
the jollyrodgered sea." Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953) Under milk wood

> do you still have the original one that packed up?

You know how it is - this tatty old alternator's been hanging around for
ages, cluttering the place up, so just before Christmas I have a sort out!
However I asked if they had an earlier type in the motor factors and
explained, and hey presto, a box full of fans and pulleys from the exchange
ones that come back - FoC as well! Thanks for the info Austin, it told me
what to ask for.
--
Bob Miller
1990 ex-RAF 110 3.5 V8 17KJ83
1967 3/4 ton Sankey 09ES17

On or around Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:44:42 -0000, "Bob Miller"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>> do you still have the original one that packed up?
>
>You know how it is - this tatty old alternator's been hanging around for
>ages, cluttering the place up, so just before Christmas I have a sort out!
>However I asked if they had an earlier type in the motor factors and
>explained, and hey presto, a box full of fans and pulleys from the exchange
>ones that come back - FoC as well! Thanks for the info Austin, it told me
>what to ask for.

They don't get pulleys back from me... they send 'em out without pulleys, so
that's how they get the exchange ones back
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to
a great lie than to a small one" Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
from Mein Kampf, Ch 10