Flywheel swap from an AGI to a battery cdi

[OldMercsRule]

I have a 1977 1500 inline6 with a good stater that weakly charges me battery (at the normal factory output which is a trickle), so I was plannin' ta have two batteries.

One fer startin' the ol' beast, n' one fer me electric gizmo's, n' swap 'em from time ta time to keep 'em charged up, as I would worry about fryin' the stator if I hooked both batteries up (to the 1977 stator).

I have a 1981 115 inline6 parts engine with a good AGI type stater on it, (I dunno if it puts out more juice then the 1977 1500 or not).

I also dunno if the top of the flywheel/crankshaft setup on the 1981 is the same as the 1977 as it has the belt driven distributor that the 1981 lacks, but they do use the exact same starter motor so I assume the number of flywheel teeth are the same, which would be easy to count, and will be counted before I pull anything off either beast.

I wonder whether it would be worth swappin' the two flywheels ta get more charging power, (if the 1981 even has more output the the 1977 does).

Hope somebody knows, or has pondered n' maybe tried ta deal with the weak chargin' issue I'm ponderin' ta try ta deal with here.

Thanks fer takin' a shot if ya choose to!!

JR

 

[Laddies]

Re: Flywheel swap from an AGI to a battery cdi

JR, the flywheels and stator are both different and you would have to change over to ADI ign was I don't think is possible as I believe there are some block differences and possibly the belt drive crank is longer, it is on the 4 cyl powerheads. Get a battery isolator and hook up the 2 batteries to it and it will charge the primary battery first and then change to secondary they really work well.

 

[OldMercsRule]

Re: Flywheel swap from an AGI to a battery cdi

Thanks Bob that is exactly what I wanted to know. JR