[BaadAssGremlins] Motorola Alternators and Prestolite ignition modules

Hey Doc,

Although my car is a 75, I would have sworn that the alternator was a Motorola. Now you have me worried and I'll have to look. What was the deal with them? Why are they so bad? I do have the Prestolite ignition module in my car, and I read where they are bad. I remember my car going through spurts of shutting down on me on the highway back in 77. Turned out it was the Prestolite gone bad. I'd like to get rid of it, but have no idea how to do it or where to start. I envy our friends in the southdue to the availability of cars and parts. As you know, there are not many AMC cars left in the Northeast as the road salt did them in years ago, as it did many fine old cars of various makes.

Charlie

In a message dated 6/12/2006 7:36:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx writes:

Charlie I had no problem getting mechanical parts from my local
non-chain auto parts store. The only mechanical parts I had to go to an
AMC supplier for was a fuel tank sender and a Delco alt kit conversion.
Do you have a Motorola alt in your car? 74 was the last year for that
piece of crap. I now have a nice 100 amp Delco in my orange Hornet. Six
cyl models with power steering have huge bracket and steering box
clearance issues to install a Delco, but between me and my friend we
over came them. Since you don't have A/C and have a V8, Kennedy American
makes a nice kit to install a Delco. My son just put one on his 72 V8
Javelin. The interior was my big problem since it was originally a
Florida car and it was just cooked. I got door and hatch gaskets, door
window track felt, window fuzzes from Kennedy American and also the so
called formed carpet kit which took forever to make fit. I got original
seat insert material from a place in Oregon. Luckily my friend was
parting out an old base model Gremlin Con Edison fleet car and gave me a
bunch of the plastic interior parts I needed. All the rest of the
interior parts I had to hunt for all over the country. Between here and
the AMX files I was given, bought and put onto people that had what I
needed. Like I say part of building a nice car is the hunt for that one
elusive part you need to finish the project. I laugh at these car shows
on TV where the truck pulls in with 10,000$ worth of repo parts and all
they basically do is assemble the car except for rust repair and paint.
"Doc".