-=> GREG MAYMAN wrote to ROY J. TELLASON <=-

 -=> Roy J. Tellason said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "ALTERNATOR RATINGS" on 01-16-03  04:03.....

 RJT> A tach?  I have one of those,  with an automatic...

 GM> There you go then! 

 GM> They are handy when you're doing a tune-up of the engine, but
 GM> I've never seen the need for them any other time.

You've still got vehicles that _can_ be tuned up?
Here a tuneup means change of plugs, oil, filter, possibly
a new sensor or if you're really unlucky a new computer
module.
I liked vehicles with points and a few simple tricks
allowed you to really get mileage out of them.
Wipe a card with alcohol through the points before buttoning
up, a steel nail file to dress pitted point sets, cleaning
and selecting spark plugs for reuse discarding those with
rounded electrodes.
The alcohol trick trippled the time to point pitting in my
experience with even oil from one fingers shortening point life.
I got 9 years out of three tuneup kits on my old
550 Suzuki plus a few extra spark plugs.
Sometimes progress isn't like finding myself stranded
when I had a low battery on a Yamaha 1100 
where my old Yamaha 650 with points would run with an
indicated 7 volts at the 12 volt battery terminals.
Mind you it ran a bit rough at high RPM but than it only
required an old dirt cheap regulator to fix, from 
a salvage yard at that.

 
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