I just repaced and flashed my generator after a clean-up and lube.  Battery is putting out 5.7 to 6.4 volts.  Turned the key, hit the starter button and nothing, except the dome light dimmed considerably.  So, I turned off the key and pushed the starter button and the dome light dimmed.  I am confused.  Checked voltages between the negative terminal and the block, starter, heater core shroud and all contacts returned voltages as above.  Any idea why the starter button would draw power when the ignition is in the off position?  I'm thinking a short somewhere.  Also, the previous owner bypassed the neutralization switch by hooking the two leads together on one terminal of the switch.  It appears that this modification will allow the car to be started in gear, but that would only confuse new drivers or crooks, I suppose.  Horn works, although the sound is noticeably diminished and growly.  Headlights work, fan works, starter don't work.  Can't claim to be on the 'horns of a dilemma', due to the fact that mine works, but I sure as heck am confused and head-scratchin'...,

Thanks,

R.

I don't think so, Px.  Thinner wire goes to field and heavier gauge to armature, so I read.  Also, I had marked the thinner one with a tape marked 'top', which indicated to me that it was the one that hooked up higher on the generator body when it was removed.

Thanks

R.

Remove the f and r from the generator and tape ends of wire separately and try the starter. If everything worked before , look for the gremlin at the last place you fed it, " check generator for a short to the casing"

Pontiax, I'll try that this morning and let you know what happens.  I'm still wondering how it can be that the draw is there with the ignition switch in the off position.  I think Fitz is in Mb.  If he leaves now, he could be here in a coupla' days.  :)

rousifier wrote:

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Whoa, Carl, now you're talkin'!!!! Where would one find a car buddy of similar description out here in the hinterlands? Hell, we're so remote out here on the frozen prairies that most of my buddies are dog sledders. From the tone of your message, I take it where you live you have that new-fangled telephone service? Damn. Did I mention that my '52 is one of the newer cars in town? That's to say, the other two are a little older...,

Fitz, grab your gear and get over here. The coffee's on!!

Regards and thanks,

Rous.

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 The town is named after the township of Didsbury, now a suburban area of Manchester, England.^[3] The first settlers were Dutch Mennonites who left their homes inPennsylvania and emigrated as United Empire Loyaliststo Waterloo County, Ontario. They were granted the area around Didsbury in 1894 by the government of Sir John A. MacDonald.

Original settlement in the area was sparse, and this in part explains the initial slow development of the town-site as a service centre. The first concern of the Mennonite settlers was to build a church; and the primary task of the settlers was to create farmsteads. Settlement prior to the post-1900 land rush was limited to the small group who came west in 1894.

1897 saw the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which pushed forward the town's development. The CPR constructed a station in the town in 1904. Didsbury was incorporated as a village in 1905 and as a town on September 6, 1906.

Fires in 1914 and 1924 destroyed the early "boomtown" commercial streetscape and led to the passing by Town Council of a bylaw which required masonry construction for all new downtown commercial buildings. Many of these brick buildings stand today.