I got some quality grandpa time in yesterday. Both my grandsons (Cade and Austin) were over. Cade asked if there was anything out in the shop to work on. I had set aside an alternator with a bad regulator for the D50 for just such an occasion. We had gone thru a generator when we first built the 283 so doing an alternator now just seemed like a natural progression.







About the time we got the alternator back together Austin wandered out to the shop and wanted to help too. I had given him his starter tool box with a few “real tools” (a hand full of spare wrenches, a crescent wrench etc) a couple of months ago. How can you say no to this?







The second part of the project was to put the alternator on the old HEMI (which is set up for a GM alternator) and test it out. I have a test harness built just to test out alternators. Cade was great showing little brother what had to be done to change out the alternator.







You should have seen the grins on both boys faces when the old HEMI fired off. We did an output test on the alternator and then it was time to put the original alternator back on the engine. It just doesn’t get any better than seeing my 2 Grandsons wrenching together, especially on an old carbureted HEMI.









And yes the last picture is my new screen saver.



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