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(Message started by: scorpio_man on Feb 4^th, 2008, 6:34am)

Title: tdi alternators (for new member)
Post by scorpio_man on Feb 4^th, 2008, 6:34am

Help, new boy on the block, how do I get the board index page to start a new thread?
I have problem with alternators had three new ones & 2 repaired in ten years have had the 2.5 TDi Ultima any ideas?

cheers
crocket (new member)

Title: Re: tdi alternators (for new member)
Post by scorpio_man on Feb 4^th, 2008, 6:39am

on 02/04/08 at 06:34:31, scorpio_man wrote:

Help, new boy on the block, how do I get the board index page to start a new thread?

hi and welcome

have a read of..... http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/YaBBHelp/posting.html

hth

Title: Re: tdi alternators (for new member)
Post by taliban aka Cheekyboy2 on Feb 4^th, 2008, 2:32pm

the early oil burners were fitted with a 75amp alternator which couldnt take the strain, ford later fitted either a 120 or 125amp one, it might be that the ones you've had replaced were the earlier version.....

Title: Re: tdi alternators (for new member)
Post by sector-9 on Feb 6^th, 2008, 10:23pm

I believe the early alternator was also used on some Transit vans. You cannot fit one from a petrol engine because the vacuum pump (for the brake servo) is driven from the back of the alternator.

Later diesels had an alternator with a front mounted vacuum pump which looks similar to the one fitted to the Rover L-series diesel engine.

Darren