I've just bought a nissan micra alternator because it is smaller and better shaped at the rear.

the problem i have now is to wire it into the ford loom.

a thread earlier this week showed me the ford plug and the cables it is connected to

attached below is a picture i drew of both the ford connector and the nissan alternator.

the way i figure it is that the large brown cable and the small brown and yellow cable in the ford loom go to the nissan plug with the large brown cable and the small brown cable?

the middle size cable in the ford plug goes to the bolt terninal on the nissan alternator and has the condenser attached to it?

the black cable on the nissan alternator is the earth and should be connected to the earth strap from the engine block or another conviniant earth?

i would like to finish this task without setting fire to the car .

i know others have used this alternator with the Pinto.

Ditch

here is the picture i hope
Rescued attachment ford to nissan.JPG

here is a photo

Ditch
Rescued attachment ford & nissan 1.JPG

Ive got your U2U. I try and take a ook tomorrow and et you know what mine is like. Alternator looks different to yours though, i dont recal the condenser bit on mine.

The condenser/capacitor may only be there to suppress electrical noise - I wouldn't let it confuse you!

Many thanks darren

david i think you are right, what concerns me it that the earth cable appears to be attached to the condenser to, and that would make a circuit all the time. I'm going to clean the alternator up this afternoon and have a better look.

Ditch

Im afraid mine wont be much help. I have a large terminal with nut - ive taken this directly to the battery. On mine i have a plug socket. I have taken a wire from this to one of the terminals in the socket. This si basically a charging sensor so the alternaotor always gives out a minimum voltage irrespective o fthe revs. I think mine earths through the bracket to engine. I dont have any other wires connected (i didnt need to feed another wire to the dash as the DD2 has auto voltage sensing).

I hope this helps but as said i think mine is different to yours.