Aussie WW2 staff cars

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Hanno

The only other mods are changing it to 12 volt. Easy change but required an alternator to replace the 6 volt generator. I picked up a single wire (eliminates external voltage regulators) alternator from an old Ford Falcon and it just dropped straight on the original generator mount. The beauty of these is they came with a split pulley and a couple of washers between the pulley faces made it wide enough to match the crankshaft and water pump pulleys so I could remain with the original wide belt.

The globes were all replaced. Starter works fine (in fact 10 times better) on 12 volt and you just need little $7 12-6 volt converters in the windscreen wiper and fuel gauge circuits.

The distributor was very worn and loose, as most of them are at this age, so I have put in a complete after market electronic distributor, not just the half-the-job electronic point conversion in the original distributor. Much cheaper than a replacement original and so much better.

I had one on my Normandy Chevrolet Panel Van and it certainly started and ran like new with no points worries.

Will get the springs reset to lift her up a bit as she is starting to get a bit low and that should be that.

I know some people are critical of such modifications but very few of the purists have any concept of driving an 80 year old vehicle 7,000km on a single trip knocking over 6-700km a day for four days just getting to the start and the same coming home again. As well as most Australians. more than a few Americans and Canadians understand the problem and the bulk of the critical comments come from Europeans. How many times have I been subject to rolling eyes and superior comments from "experts" at Normandy and UK events. We are not hot-rodding our vehicles just using common sense to ensure not only is the journey completed but done with a minimum of drama. You can be sure there will still be drama with the remaining original components at some stage.

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