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Ok it dose that

Which way should the generator motor if the fields are correct?

Which direction should it motor then?

No paint and where there was rust i polished it with sand paper.

What if the field coils were reversed ? would that cause all this trouble?

But the battery charger showed a reverse hookup so there is a clear line from the 3rd brush to the case.

I do not have an ampmeter on my battery charger but i did the test and the ampmeter in the car showed nothing

What is this hole for?

Ok i will try that

If the generator is working shouldnt i be able to test it by putting the multimeter to the brass out put on the generator and ground the other lead and get a reading of some sort? Because on the BAT side of the cut out it shows 6 volts but no amperage and if you go to the other side it shows...

It motors in the clockwise direction the best that it ever has. Flashing the fields on the forum here it said to start the car and use a jumper wire to by pass the cut out. No i do not have an original cut out

My generator isnt working i have replaced the brushes, polished the brush holders and replaced the field coils and tested the armature the best i can with a multimeter and cleaned the groves in the commutator the cutout is brand new solid state cutout. Cleaned the ground connections and flashed...

Ive got a 1930 model a radiator on my 29 and i am looking to trade for a 29 radiator it your interested

Armature tested good i also tried the starter on an 8 volt battery and a 12 volt battery same thing just wont turn fast or with power and the commutator is shiny clean

The starter on my model A was weak when I got it about 2 months ago and about a week ago it failed I cleaned the ground connection and the battery connection on the frame and the battery terminals and that didn't fix it so I took it apart, the field windings are not grounding to the case and...