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Look carefully at the little paper spacer under the square head of the field terminal.  If the terminal was torqued too hard this thin paper gets cut and the field gets shorted to the armature and the generator has no output.  There are some plastic spacers around but I haven't found them yet.  Anything including the plastic from a milk bottle is better then nothing.  If you tighten the terminal up carefully you can insure the corner of the square head is not cutting through the spacer.  This is a design flaw in the 65A generator.

Meth-amphetamine addicts: STOP NOW.  Take generator to qualified service personnel.  You will only end up with all the parts in a pile and no way to get it back together.  That's what always happens remember?
Note the little pin in the frame and the little slot in the brush plate.  It has to go together one way only.

Meth-amphetamine addicts: STOP NOW.  Take generator to qualified service personnel.  You will mash the brush plate in backwards and the generator will never work again.

Note the little pin in the frame and the hole in the gear side end bell.  It can only go together one way.

Meth-amphetamine addicts: STOP NOW.  Take generator to qualified service personnel.  No matter how hard you pound the sledge hammer, the pin will not make a new hole.
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