ok....
La Paz, Baja Ca, 1971
Fiat 600D car that I had bought for $ 30 and prepped for Baja using
mostly scrounged materials and parts.
The Voltage Regular gave out just before getting to La Paz.
Couldn't find one that would work ( though many would I bet )

I hot fielded the generator with 12 voltsIgnition power.
and ran high beams at night ( charging about 40 amps full time )
And ran no charging during the day.
it fried the battery ..
but it got me 1,500 miles home the The Bay Area , Ca.

that was very 'pre-Vanagon' back in those days.

scott
www.turbovans.com

On 11/25/2012 12:55 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
>     Used the tire chain tensioner rubber for the water pump/alternator belt
> on my inline once for about 25 miles.   Got me to the big city of Trona,
> California....right between Mojave and Barstow....parked till morning in
> the front of a junkyard/garage there and the next morning dug a used belt
> off a Rabbit that was out there in the pile....That got me to Mojave where
> there was a NAPA store...
>