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had my generator rebuilt recently and the guy who did it repainred the generator for me and painted the fan belt pulley black. Would like to know if a black pulley is the correct color or not. I had it a aluminum type color prior to the rebuilding. Thx

I would think the pulley would be on the generator when the generator was painted so therefore I assume it would be black. Notice I said assume! I get in trouble when I do that. Anyway, mine is black for what it is worth.

Dick

The pulley was not installed on the generator when the generator case was painted, The nut, lock washer are "metal" colored and the puley was not painted but has some flat darker gray plating or coating.

Wow, new to me...Assuming 47-48 were the same, I will bet many of us are incorrect???Maybe not Russell??

Gene what about the inspection cover "that covers the brushes"

I don't remember the exact term but it was gun barrel blue or something.

Gun metal? So to recap...black body...natural pulley..& gun metal cover?Huh

Well you just had to call me out

Last night about this same time no one had replied to Rich so I wrote a long reply after a lot of searching. I hit post. Read my post, then deleted it.

I looked through all my reference pictures of '46, '47, and '48's. Found three different possibilities. After some close-up studying the tags on those I discovered only one of the five had the correct date code, a '48, for those years. For some reason the other four, 1 '46, 2 '47's and another '48, had a 1950 date code generators????

Then I remembered to look through the before pic's of MY car. The results of the 2 '48 I have pic's of, that had '48 date codes, were both the same. Both are NOT as I now have on my car. They were, black pulley, natural front plate, black body and cover band, natural rear plate.

Now you ask, what I have. Don't know why! One day I will put the red circle tag on the top post.

I also do not know if '47 and '48's were painted alike.

I Thought it was an aluminum backing plate and an galvanized cover band... I think the black pulley and front plate were up to who remanufacured it...

Welcome Kevin!I think we have once again opended up a can of worms....

Lol...Guess I'll have look at a few of my 'ol one's...Sorry I haven't been in touch....

SOOOOOO, you made parole. I don't know what else would account for you to abandon your friends for such a long time!!! Anyway, glad you're back.

Also, note the black adjusting arm. Think it should be gray.

Thanks for the picture. Fun to read all the posts and ideas and opinions that we all have. I am going to Hershey, Pa next and will look at some cars there.

Not gun metal which is a gray color. It wasnt painted but rather coated or treated. Was smooth and shiney.
The adjusting bracket is engine color as it was bolted on the engine befor the engine was painted.


I will bet that few correct ones will be at Hershey.

Gene, you have awakened a deep, deep, memory of my first car. A '52 Chevy. I do remember now that the "band" was like the blued (dark blue-black) barrels of guns. Haven't seen that feature in many, many years. Always just painted.

I wonder why after so many years we never really addressed this in detail???I have a little work ahead of me

A few early 1952 models had a band. Most had the short generator with no band.

Johnny's This is how the pictures of the 2 '48's I found. Except it looked like the pulley was dark. might have been just rust.

Have no idea what gen was on the '52. Dad bought it for $75. Came with a loud knock up front. A Uncle filed down a rod cap it lasted a year until it was traded for a '59 Chevy which used a quart of oil every 90 or so miles. Their were no mosquitos in my hometown that year!

Yeah, I'm back on the streets making trouble...To bad I tossed all my generator"s when I moved...Couldn't haul everything up to the country...I'd imagine all the new rebuild's are Cad. coated w/ black body...W/an Aluminium backing plate...I'm in the city and the car is up there, otherwise i could take a look, since the '47 is pretty much all original...

No mosquitos that year...Your killing me...City should have paid him for that...lol

Ok Russell,you being an expert on research.We need a color pic of the shiny dark blue generator band...Please!!!

Still looking. Thought, call Skip Geear 541-826-2177, Oregon. He is the tech guy for generator 27-54.

I posted a photo of a couple of bands that show the color Gene described. Sorry for the quality but it might give you the idea.

Dave