Mutt

[fallen]

I just started my mutt for the first time today. The alt. Was not hooked up. The alt. Over heated and started smoking after about 30the seconds. It turned fine when I put it on. Does anyone have any idea what may have happened?

 

[vtdeucedriver]

Sounds like something is wired backwards. If power is going at the wrong end, it can essentially become a electric motor.

 

[poppop]

You said the alternater was not hooked up?? If it didnot have any wires hooked to it then I don't think it would charge at all. If that is true then it is not an electrical problem. I have had problems with farm equipment where vibration broke the output wire after the alt was excited and that caused an overcharge which burned up the alt.

 

[73m819]

Bearing froze

 

[moose53]

I agree with Ron, if its not hooked up, and gets hot & smokes really fast, I'd suspect a bad bearing....

Jim

 

[fallen]

The mutt had a generator on it before. I just put the alt. on it it. I picked up one of the wiring kits to change over from gen to alt. The alt. was bolted on but no wires were hooked up. The alt. spun freely when i put it on. It also spun freely when i took it off, after it started smoking. The entire Alt. got really hot. I thought it was going to catch fire. It also never made any noise. As my luck would have it the new water pump, i just put on, started leaking as well. There were no wires hooked up to the alt. when it started smoking. The conversion kit I got to swap over from gen to alt has 1 wire taped to it that does not obviuosly go to anything. Does anyone have experience with these kits that can tell me where that wire goes. The directions are for an M35 and dont show where to hook the wire up to. Thanks

 

[mutt1966]

I'd like to suggest that you try the G838.org site, they can set you straight on that, the 60AMP Alts are very touchy. Scott O&O