Ok

From what I can make out of your diagram, connect a light in series, that is, just cut into the line coming from the coil to the regulator.

You can just do that under the bonnet if you like and you will then see if the light comes on with the ignition on, engine not running and it should go out once you start the engine.

Once you have done that and it works, just run a wire from the ignition terminal of your ignition switch, to one side of a globe and then run the wire from the other side to the terminal on your alternator. Make sure that the lamp holder is not earthed or it will short out the regulator.

You will need a lamp fitting similar to that from a late model ford side indicator light, the type that have two wires running to them and a plastic body. For the light to work correctly as an alternator/generator charge indicator light, it must not be grounded at all. It earths through the alternator when it is not charging.

Hope this helps.


Rick - West Australia
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ok sorry for my grade school drawing i tried my best to try and draw it out let me know if you cant make sense of it but thats exactly how i have my wiring





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Is it possible for you to post photos of the alternator and regulator you have to determine what wire goes where.

The article I referred to previously should have given some idea as to what goes where but it depends on the particular setup as to what is what.

Sorry I can't help any more than that.

Rick - West Australia
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didnt really help me that set up there on the diagram is super different from what i have to connect a alt light from were to were does the wiring have to go to

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I forgot to add the link to the article.

Here it is.

http://www.rowand.net/Shop/Tech/AlternatorGeneratorTheory.htm

Regards

Rick - West Australia
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You will need to run a wire from your dash light to the alternator. It may still be in the harness in the area of the old regulator and should be yellow with a black band.

I found this article which should make things a bit easier to understand as the author goes to a lot of detail to explain everything.

Hopefully you can make sense of the article.

You will need to determine what make and model of alternator/regulator you have and adapt the diagram provided by this article to your application.

The oil light wiring, the wire should be white with red band, should still be in your wiring harness unless it has been completely removed, just install an oil pressure switch into the block behind the oil filter, plug on the wire and you will be on your way.

Good luck.

Regards

Rick - West Australia
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i have no wiring what so ever the previous owner put in a alternator and a new voltage regulator on the regulator it has 1 wire to the ignition coil condensor 2 to the alternator and 1 to the starter solenoid the alternator has 1 little bolt sticking out of with no wiring running to it what would i have to do running all brand new wire o and the plug were the oil pressure is suppose to go the previous owner put a little bolt to plug it up so im stuck having to everything brand new i dont mind keeps me busy ok so the alt light how would i be able to make it work

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If you have a standard dash you should have those lights installed anyway.

The generator needs the indicator light working to correctly charge the battery as it is part of the circuit to energize the field coils.

It may well be that the holes in the dash were originally for those lights and someone removed them at some time in its past life.

It is very simple to hook a light up to a pressure switch for the oil even when you are using a gauge, just by installing a Tee fitting and screwing the pressure switch in with the oil fitting in the other hole. The indicator light is wired to the regulator on an alternator and generator. Checking a wiring diagram will give you its correct placement.

I would think that the wiring for both lights is still intact and may actually still be hooked up but the globes are missing or blown.

This is probably the result of someone playing around with the car in its past life and thinking they know better than the manufacturer by removing them.

It is always part of the fun (read that as headache) of having older vehicles, trying to repair what someone has done before you.

Regards

Rick - West Australia
Do Y Blocks Downunder run upside down? Gravity Sucks!!

hey everyone i use to have a 65 galaxie with a 240 straight six i remembered when i was running low on oil the oil light would turn on inside my dash and when my alternator started dying on me the alt light would turn on i was wondering if we can add those little censors on the y-block i have a 57 ford f100 my dash has 2 holes in it that has nothing on them i think they were setup for something else at one time in that trucks life but im not to sure when i got the truck there were 2 light bulbs in each hole that never turn on i can use those as warning lights for oil n the alternator so my question is can i add something like that to the my 272 and if so what would i be looking for im putting in a after market oil pressure gauge i know thats all i need but i dont wanna leave those 2 holes just there they look ugly

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