Auto Electrics 1963 Renault Caravelle
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ed4ferrets
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Auto Electrics 1963 Renault Caravelle
Hi, any oldtimers recall this little rear engine beauty? Thing is after switching engine off, there was smoke coming from engine bay so I disconnected battery as quickly as I could and investigated. The voltage regulator cover had burn marks on it and the insulation on a black wire to/from regulator was melted to another (red) wire within the same harness but going to/from starter motor. Tracing the melted harness to the front of the car, both wires seemed to lead to/from the ammeter ( not original equipment). Inside the regulator a contact point had burned right off and welded itself to the cover. Does anyone have ideas how, why, what could cause this and do I need to replace regulator with same Ducellier part or if any old Lucas, Bosch etc would do the trick?
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AndersDK
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by ed4ferrets</i>
On another subject, I'm not implying that you're a greybeard Andersbut you may be able to help with my posting on the Renault forum too!!
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">I admit - I am a ballheaded greybeard [8D]
The heavy red wire would be the charge wire TO the battery - it simply takes the route to the starter as this has got an even heavier constant connection to battery + terminal.
It's not clear from your description where the black wire ends up ?
Anyways - I'm pretty sure your Reno got the standard charge circuit of cars of that age - meaning you can pretty much use anything from classic/old timer suppliers.
You will find the wire terminals on the charge relay is marked up with the standard ID's : D- , D+ , etc.
Further more you will pretty easy recognise the wiring/setup from any street car electric diagram of the time.
The cause of the problem is not easy to guesstimate on - but be suspicious in the battery itself. If this had a very low charge last time the Reno was started - the whole charge circuit may have been overloaded - causing heat in bad connections to start off a nasty shortcircuit.
I still remember my own Dad's first car : a German build Goggomobil which set off fire because of - charge circuit failure [8)]
On another subject, I'm not implying that you're a greybeard Andersbut you may be able to help with my posting on the Renault forum too!!
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">I admit - I am a ballheaded greybeard [8D]
The heavy red wire would be the charge wire TO the battery - it simply takes the route to the starter as this has got an even heavier constant connection to battery + terminal.
It's not clear from your description where the black wire ends up ?
Anyways - I'm pretty sure your Reno got the standard charge circuit of cars of that age - meaning you can pretty much use anything from classic/old timer suppliers.
You will find the wire terminals on the charge relay is marked up with the standard ID's : D- , D+ , etc.
Further more you will pretty easy recognise the wiring/setup from any street car electric diagram of the time.
The cause of the problem is not easy to guesstimate on - but be suspicious in the battery itself. If this had a very low charge last time the Reno was started - the whole charge circuit may have been overloaded - causing heat in bad connections to start off a nasty shortcircuit.
I still remember my own Dad's first car : a German build Goggomobil which set off fire because of - charge circuit failure [8)]
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Alpineandy
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The Renault Owners Club would probably be your best bet for this type of info : http://www.renaultownersclub.com/