Alternator brush spring tension
Please can anybody confirm that there should be one full turn of the curly spring holding the brushes against the slip rings on an '82 airhead 280W alternator. There's nothing about it in either the BMW workshop manual (which seems to be crap in a lot of things) nor in the Haynes manual. Having said that, it does look like one full turn and a bit from one of the photos. Can anyone tell me any different, please?
ACTUALLY, I'm fitting a 400Watt replacement from Motor Works, there are no instructions whatever included. I think, however, that an extra half turn would be excessive even though the current will be greater.
Sorry to be a pain with all these questions, I comfort myself with the thought that the answers might be useful to others some day.
Thanks yet yet again
John
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