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DITTO, If they were driving Kaisers, then, maybe this would be the place to make such a post. 

I think he got his computer and Kaiser forums mixed.

I've added signal lights to a Henry J.  All that was required was changing the front sockets as the rear ones use the brake light terminal for signal lights.  On the J you don't change the terminal block.  I'm not sure on Kaiser. Weas has a Special which has signal lights and the terminal block on that one has 5 posts.  I believe the outer two are for the signal lights.  One is parking lights, one is low beam, one is high beam and the other two are L and R signal light.  And actually, you don't really need to change the front sockets if you don't mind going without parking lights which no one uses anyway. I did find on the J that the bulbs used for the parking lights caused the flasher to go way too slow so when I did change to the dual terminal sockets using the correct bulbs, it works great.

I remember when we left the national in Dearborn back in '74, the first place we went was across the border into Canada.  All they did was ask if we had any firearms.  After that, they let us through. We drove up to Toronto to visit my uncle, then back down through Niagara Falls.  It wouldn't be that simple today. That's really too bad.

Thanks everyone, you saved the day again.  The diagram I have has two distinct connections from the terminals on the generator, one for armature and one for field which both run to the voltage regulator.  There is a screw on the generator case as Fid mentioned that is marked "G" and that is the one that was not discernible in the diagram. 

Don't worry about the old wiring, it is gone!  I am making a new harness to get it driveable until I can afford one of Mr. McBrides. 

One more question, has anyone converted a non-turn signal car into one with turn signals by adding the required terminal blocks and another socket in the taillights?  Thanks again for the great advice, I really appreciate it.

This looks like the place to maybe find a buyer. If anyone is interested, just send me a text to my cell or an email please. I haven't cleaned it up or attempted to bend it back into shape (not bent too bad). Looks like it would clean up real nice but I didn't know if it would devalue it to anyone who needed stuff like this




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Your post & the recent hurricane coverage reminded me of stories I had read of Bar Harbor and other exclusive resort areas on the New England coast. There were a lot of luxury cars - even custom bodied ones - that were bought and used in these areas for 3 or 4 months in the summer. The owners went back to New York and left the cars behind to be stored over the winter.
So, these cars would have had heavy usage during that short season to even run up 3,000 miles a year.   

An additional conversation point: The T86 Trans used on KF cars has an unusually long input shaft. A few months ago I was looking at transmissions for another project and found that the T86 I had loose was actually from a Studebaker truck, so I had to look up a real KF trans my brother had. The input shaft lengths are: 9 3/4(KF) and 7 1/2(Studebaker) while a typical Chevy is 7 1/4 inches. The input shaft as used on Jeep vehicles with T30 trans & 226 equipped is also 9 3/4 inches. I have not seen an explanation why vehicles with the 226 engine needed such a long input shaft. However this feature was used designing adapter plates for 4WD Jeep motor swaps.

Jim B summation points out the uncertainty over duties which strangled the SDC (inter)National meet in Hamilton. "If we are wrong, the duties will be refunded when the proper forms are filled out and processed." I can sell you a bridge in Brooklyn and it has a REBATE!

Do all three wires from the generator match those on the regulator on Kaiser?  They don't on the Henry J and I don't think they would on anything else either but it depends on what is meant by "terminals" on the regulator.  The regulator has 3 terminals. The generator has two terminals - the Field which connects to the terminal marked FLD on the regulator (skinnier wire) and the armature which goes to the ARM terminal (sometimes marked GEN ) on the regulator (thicker wire).  There is a third wire which connects directly to the "case" or body of the generator. That one is a ground wire which usually goes back to one of the mounting screws (as opposed to a terminal) on the regulator.  You definitely do not want to connect that ground wire from the case of the generator to the third terminal on the regulator, which is the "BAT" terminal feeding the battery.