<VV> Generator nut

[Mark Durham]

All good advice. But to remove the nut once you do determine which thread,
left or right, use a impact air gun to spin off the nut. It took a half a
second on my 62 generator. I wrapped a rag around the armature to protect my
hand as I held it and gently tapped the nut with the air gun and socket.

FYI. I found the fan end generator plate cracked around the bearing opening
in the housing after I got it off and disassembled/cleaned. The unit is
still sitting on the shelf, bit the bullet and put a alternator on it the
car.
Of any pb on my 62 I had as a college kid in the 60's and early 70's, it was
the generator. It broke mounts, it shorted out and burnt up all the wiring,
it stranded us several times when cell phones did not exist, so, I removed
the problem.
Mark Durham

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Chris & Bill Strickland <
lechevrier at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> >I'm disassembling a '62 generator for cleaning and painting, but can't
> >remove the pulley nut. Is the shaft nut right or left hand thread ?
> >
>
> Jim --
>
> Originally the generators are reverse threaded, but this is the question
> we need to ask of you -- is it a righty or a lefty?  Meaning, is it an
> original Corvair armature, or has the generator ever been repaired by
> replacing the armature with a non-Corvair unit, which is not reverse
> threaded. You have to look at the exposed threads carefully -- while the
> nut is a hardened steel, the shaft isn't, and it is easy to strip the
> threads, meaning then that you too could then be looking for a
> replacement armature.
>
> Or, horrors, it could already be stripped, and the nut was just jammed
> back on until it held, and now doesn't want to turn either direction
> ...   well, it *is* a possibility ...
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